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Apr 3, 2024 · The assassination. U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy at Dallas Love Field airport in Texas, November 22, 1963. On November 21, 1963, President Kennedy—accompanied by his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Vice President Johnson—undertook a two-day, five-city fund-raising trip to Texas. The trip was also likely intended ...
Added: Aug 15, 2009. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 40722608. Source citation. Although the grave marker is labeled Henry W. Lewis, his obituary and marriage record give his name as William Henry Lewis. OBITUARY William Henry Lewis was born February 21, 1861, and departed this life January 25, 1914, aged 52 years, 11 months and 4 days.
May 3, 2019 · On April 14, 1865, a man crept up the back staircase of Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. with a gun in his hand. Soon, it would take that gunman, John Wilkes Booth, mere seconds to fatally shoot President Abraham Lincoln through the back of the head and violently alter the course of American history itself. However, though few may realize ...
Feb 9, 2024 · In 1968, 36-year-old Henry Lewis makes history when he is chosen, over more than 150 other candidates, as the first Black conductor of a major U.S. orchestra: the New Jersey Symphony.
Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights movement leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7:05 p.m.
Apr 12, 2016 · Throughout the Civil War, Fanny Seward, daughter of Secretary of State William Henry Seward, kept a diary of her life in Washington, D.C. On the night of Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth, a co-conspirator, Lewis Powell made his way into the Seward home.
Apr 14, 2015 · April 14, 2015 By Michael Green. Fight with the Assassin in Secretary Seward's Room. National Police Gazette, April 22, 1865 (Photo: Smithsonian) After Abraham Lincoln drew his last breath at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton said, “Now he belongs to the ages.”. Stanton had spent the night sending messages to ...
