(ABRAHAM LINCOLN) Issue of the Rutland Daily Herald on the L

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Issue of the Rutland Daily Herald on the Lincoln assassination. 4 pages, 21¼ x 14½ inches, on one folding sheet; unbound and uncut, minor wrinkling. Rutland, VT, 15 April 1865

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The extra was issued at noon, just hours after Lincoln's death. The headline reads "Terrible National Calamity. Assassination of President Lincoln. He is Shot Through the Head and Mortally Wounded. Sec'y Seward and his Son also Assassinated. The President Ded at 7:22 This Morning. J. Wilkes Booth the Assassin." A meeting was announced at the Rutland Town Hall for 2 p.m. "to take such action as may then be deemed advisable upon the national calamity."