THIS year, Good Friday, the day commemorating Christ's crucifixion, falls on April 14, as it did in 1865.
On that evening, in the balcony box of Ford's Theater in Washington, John Wilkes Booth fired a handmade .41-caliber derringer ball into the back of Abraham Lincoln's head.
Thomas Nast's 1866 painting "President Lincoln Entering Richmond" commemorating his surprise stroll into the capital of the Confederacy on April 4, 1865, shortly after Robert E. Lee's retreat...
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