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A lithograph print of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, which took place on April 14, 1865, when the U.S. President was shot while attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. From left to right: Major Henry Rathbone, Rathbone's fiancée Clara Harris, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, and the assassin John Wilkes Booth.Image credit: Currier and Ives