First Report of Lincoln Assassination

[historybuff22]

I don't have any prizes to offer, but here's a multiple-part question:

1) Which newspaper was the first in the nation to have the news on the streets of Lincoln being shot?

2) How did the reporter, who was in the Ford's Theater audience when Lincoln was shot, get his report to his newspaper? (Remember, telegraph lines were down just prior to Lincoln being shot and didn't become operable until the next morning.)

This same reporter, upon entering Lincoln's box after he sent his report in, found Booth's pistol and turned it over to the Federal government.

Rick Brown
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