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“He is Gone.” Lincoln’s Assassination, 150 Years On

"He is Gone." Lincoln's Assassination, 150 Years On

“The assassin chose well the object of his stroke,” preached Pastor Charles Caroll Everett one hundred and fifty years ago today, in Bangor, Maine. “With one blow he pierced every loyal heart.”   Everett was delivering a sermon on an Easter Sunday unlike any other. It was the day after Abraham Lincoln was murdered by […]

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