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• - Complete text of the sermon delivered at Lincoln's funeral.
  
• - Official dispatches as published in the New York Times following Lincoln's death.
  
• - Includes excerpts from Chiniquy's controversial writings that suggest Lincoln's assassination stemmed from a Jesuit plot. Also includes background information on Chiniquy.
  
• - Edward Steers discusses his book, Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, on Booknotes.org.
  
• - The home of Mary Surratt, who was executed for her alleged part in the assassination plot.
  
• - Describes some parallels and coincidences between Lincoln and Kennedy assasinations and other historic coincidences.
  
• - An alternative view of Lincoln's Assassination. What were the motives behind the murder? Did Lincoln fit the definition of a tyrant? Did Lincoln preserve the Union at the price of individual liberty?
  
• - Provides the assassination story with hundreds of organized links to primary sources, photographs, and documents from official US archives.
  
• - The Chicago Historical reproduces a classic text that examines the physical evidence of Lincoln's assassination.
  
• - The story of the 1865 Conspiracy Trial told through contemporary news reports and illustrations.
  
• - The text of a talk given by Brigadier-General Henry Lawrence Burnett, an assistant special judge advocate for the Lincoln Assassination Trial, to the Presbyterian Church of Goshen, NY on his memories of the times and the trial.
  
• - Complete coverage of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is provided by this web site including a research service.
  
• - Account of the assassination with contemporary illustrations. From the Library of Congress.
  
• - Explores the involvement of the Freemasons in the assassination; also draws parrallels to JFK's murder.
  
• - Police blotter listing the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, 11:00 p.m., April 14, 1865. National Archives, Records of the Government of the District of Columbia.
  
• - Photographs related to the assassination of Lincoln, including a large photograph of the hanging of the four conspirators.
  
• - Photos and a brief history of the site of the assassination, which is now managed by the National Park Service.
  
• - Excerpt from Gen. T. M. Harris' book of the 1890s.