Lincoln Assassination Newspapers

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While I have ben collecting and researching the Lincoln assassination for over 50 years, I did not start collecting REPRINTS of the April 15, 1865 New York Herald's. This was the first newspaper in the country to carry the news.

In 1985 I started collecting the reprint versions. By 1992 I had 14 different reprint versions. Jump to 2012 and I then had 32 different versions and documented 3 additional ones. About one month ago I sent a letter with a DVD to over two-dozen institutions asking them to check their files and see if they had any additional reprint versions of this edition. A mere month later the number of variants is noW FIFTY-TWO!!! Each institution is going to provide me with scans to add to my online atlas of known reprints! I can hardly wait to see how many more reprint versions the rest of the institutions come up with.

Rick Brown
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