Published on
Apr 14, 2025
160 years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The spring of 1865 in Washington had been unusually mild. The capital’s lilacs, azaleas, dogwoods and native cherries bloomed, lending to the joyous mood over Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox five days earlier, which had seemed to promise an end to …
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World Socialist Web Site
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