Photos: Remembering Abraham Lincoln 150 years after assassination

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Photos: Remembering Abraham Lincoln 150 years after assassination

Museums across the country are marking the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) by the photographer Alexander Gardner, 1865, United States, Washington. Library of Congress, . (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Death of Abraham Lincoln, on April 15, 1865, USA, Engraving. (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln's box at Ford's Theater, the site of his assassination. Under the headline "Great National Calamity!" the AP reported Lincoln�s assassination, on April 15, 1865. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

This circa 1865-1880 photograph provided by the Library of Congress' Brady-Handy Collection shows Lawrence A. Gobright, the Associated Press' first Washington correspondent. A native of Hanover, Pa., Gobright covered both inaugurations of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination during a career spanning more than a third of a century in Washington. Under the headline "Great National Calamity!" the AP reported President Abraham Lincoln�s assassination, on April 15, 1865. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

This image from half of a stereoscopic photo provided by The Library of Congress shows the crowd surrounding the funeral procession for President Abraham Lincoln in Philadelphia in April 1865. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

In this Monday, April 6, 2015 photo, Karen Needles works on a scan of a photograph of President Abraham Lincoln at the National Archives in College Park, Md. To Needles, raised in small town Kansas and first in her family to go to college, Lincoln has long been a role model. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

In this Monday, April 6, 2015 photo, Karen Needles holds a letter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in the pardon case files from the Lincoln administration at the National Archives in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

In this Monday, April 6, 2015 photo, Karen Needles holds up a photograph of President Abraham Lincoln at the National Archives in College Park, Md. Three blocks away, 150 years earlier, Lincoln was felled by an assassin's bullet. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

This April 19, 1865 photo made available by the Library of Congress shows a procession for President Abraham Lincoln's funeral on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

This Thursday, April 2, 2015 photo shows the ornamentation on a replica of the train car that carried President Abraham Lincoln's coffin along the 1600-mile route from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Ill., in Elgin, Ill. Over the past five years, Dave Kloke has built the copy of the car and had hoped to hook it to the locomotive and re-travel the funeral train's exact route, but couldn't find financial sponsors. In recent weeks, though, he and other volunteers have scrambled to finish painting and upholstering, to get the car to Springfield by early May, before going on tour. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

This Thursday, April 2, 2015 photo shows a lamp, believed to be one of two that were on the original train car that carried President Abraham Lincoln's coffin along the 1600-mile route from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Ill., in Elgin, Ill. Dave Kloke is building a replica of the train car, from the truck assembly to the car itself. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

A playbill from "Our American Cousin" from the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 is shown on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., March 23, 2015. The Henry Ford Museum is offering a closer glimpse of the pivotal piece of history to mark the assassination�s 150th anniversary. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn will remove the chair from its glass enclosure on April 15, the sesquicentennial of Lincoln�s death. It will be displayed in a plaza area and museum admission will be free. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

The chair in which President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 is shown on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., March 23, 2015. The Henry Ford Museum is offering a closer glimpse of the pivotal piece of history to mark the assassination�s 150th anniversary. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn will remove the chair from its glass enclosure on April 15, the sesquicentennial of Lincoln�s death. It will be displayed in a plaza area and museum admission will be free. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

The chair in which President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 is shown on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., March 23, 2015. The Henry Ford Museum is offering a closer glimpse of the pivotal piece of history to mark the assassination�s 150th anniversary. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn will remove the chair from its glass enclosure on April 15, the sesquicentennial of Lincoln�s death. It will be displayed in a plaza area and museum admission will be free. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

The chair in which President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 is shown on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., March 23, 2015. The Henry Ford Museum is offering a closer glimpse of the pivotal piece of history to mark the assassination�s 150th anniversary. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn will remove the chair from its glass enclosure on April 15, the sesquicentennial of Lincoln�s death. It will be displayed in a plaza area and museum admission will be free. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

FILE - In this March 17, 2015 file photo, President Abraham Lincoln's top hat from the night of his assassination is on display at a new exhibit entitled "Silent Witnesses: Artifacts of the Lincoln Assassination" at the Ford's Center for Education and Leadership across the street from the historic Ford's Theatre where President Abraham Lincoln was killed, in Washington. The exhibit is open to the public until May 25, and coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln assassination on April 14. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

FILE - In this March 17, 2015 file photo, John Wilkes Booth's pistol used to kill President Abraham Lincoln is displayed at a new exhibit entitled "Silent Witnesses: Artifacts of the Lincoln Assassination" at the Ford's Center for Education and Leadership across the street from the historic Ford's Theatre, in Washington. The exhibit is open to the public until May 25, and coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln assassination on April 14. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

FILE - This file photo provided by the The Morgan Library & Museum on March 17, 2015 shows a letter dated Dec. 23, 1862 from U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to Fanny McCullough. In the letter, he wrote to the young woman about the death of her father in the war. Lincoln, who had lost his mother when he was young, was then grieving the recent death of his son Willie. The letter is from the collection of the Shapell Legacy Partnership. (AP Photo/The Morgan Library & Museum)

In this Thursday, April 2, 2015 photo, Mary Lincoln's fan, made of ivory, silk, and ostrich plumes which she carried on the night her husband, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, is displayed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill. The new exhibit �A Fiendish Assassination�, opened in the Treasures Gallery at the Museum Thursday, and runs until early July. The more than 40 artifacts displayed-many never before seen in public show items related to Lincoln�s death and funeral 150 years ago this year. (AP Photo/The State Journal-Register, David Spencer)

In this Thursday, April 2, 2015 photo, one of two silver medallions from the hearse that carried Abraham Lincoln to his grave are on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill. The elaborate gothic script on the medallion reads: In Memoriam A.L. Springfield May 4th 1865. The new exhibit �A Fiendish Assassination�, opened in the Treasures Gallery at the Museum Thursday, and runs until early July. The more than 40 artifacts displayed-many never before seen in public show items related to Lincoln�s death and funeral 150 years ago this year. (AP Photo/The State Journal-Register, David Spencer)

In this Thursday, April 2, 2015 photo, a 35-star American flag that flew from Daniel Bower's sandwich cart during the Springfield funeral of Abraham Lincoln is displayed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill., as students from Rochester Jr. High School fill out work sheets during a visit. The new exhibit �A Fiendish Assassination�, opened in the Treasures Gallery at the Museum Thursday, and runs until early July. The more than 40 artifacts displayed-many never before seen in public show items related to Lincoln�s death and funeral 150 years ago this year. (AP Photo/The State Journal-Register, David Spencer)

FILE - In this March 17, 2015 file photo, President Abraham Lincoln's carriage is displayed at the National Museum of American History in Washington. The museum has partnered with the Ford's Center for Education and Leadership across the street from the historic Ford's Theatre where President Abraham Lincoln was killed for a new exhibit entitled "Silent Witnesses: Artifacts of the Lincoln Assassination." The exhibit is open to the public until May 25th and coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln assassination on April 14. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 13: People at a bus stop watch a procession of riders taking part in an event to commemorate the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's last visit to his cottage on Monday April 13, 2015 in Washington, DC. The riders started from Pennsylvania Ave. NW and 15th St. NW to Lincoln's Cottage. (Photo by Matt McClain/ The Washington Post via Getty Images)

In this Wednesday, April 8, 2015 photo, a man takes a close-up photo of a life-size figure of Abraham Lincoln at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Randy Squires)

Robert Davis, a Civil War reenactor, poses for a portrait outside the tomb of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, April 8, 2015. A local Lincoln buff, Davis is also directing a youth drama about the Emancipation Proclamation. (AP Photo/Randy Squires)

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Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) by the photographer Alexander Gardner, 1865, United States, Washington. Library of Congress, . (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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