[ Autograph ] (Lincoln Assassination Report Newspaper) Newspaper, the Chicago Evening Journal, 4pp. folio, April 15, 1865 On the day Abraham Lincoln succumbed to John Wilkes Booth's pistol shot, the paper gives the latest news from Washington on its front page. The headlines read: "Assassination Of The President And Secretary Of State The President Expired This Morning" with full details and follow-up describing the shooting, the attack on Seward, Lincoln's medical condition, the identification and search for Booth, and so on with a brief report on the swearing-in of Andrew Johnson. A most important newspaper, bearing only light, scattered foxing and folds.