![[LINCOLN -- ASSASSINATION]. Printed broadside: The Great Crime! Mass Meeting! Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, has been assassinated, -- deliberately, foully MURDERED by Traitors in the very shadow of the Capitol, and in the very hour of the Nation's triumph over its enemies in the field...Clarion [Pennsylvania]: 1865. Folio broadside, 24 lines, 480 x 302 mm., faint scattered spotting, small edge tears, one at left affecting some text, old tape at edges, else a good copy. A large and typographically graphic broadside reflecting the public reactions in the North to news of the "national calamity." The poster calls for the citizens to meet at the courthouse in a public expression of grief for the fallen President.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2000/NYE/2000_NYE_08411_0030_000(014341).jpg?w=1)
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[LINCOLN -- ASSASSINATION]. Printed broadside: The Great Crime! Mass Meeting! Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, has been assassinated, -- deliberately, foully MURDERED by Traitors in the very shadow of the Capitol, and in the very hour of the Nation's triumph over its enemies in the field...Clarion [Pennsylvania]: 1865. Folio broadside, 24 lines, 480 x 302 mm., faint scattered spotting, small edge tears, one at left affecting some text, old tape at edges, else a good copy. A large and typographically graphic broadside reflecting the public reactions in the North to news of the "national calamity." The poster calls for the citizens to meet at the courthouse in a public expression of grief for the fallen President.