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On this day, 159 years ago, four condemned Lincoln assassination conspirators (from L to R Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Powell, David E. Herold, and George A. Atzerodt) are executed in the courtyard of the Old Arsenal Penitentiary in Washington, D.C.
For a presentation on the Lincoln assassination by Dr. William E. Hardy, the Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Center for Leadership and Public Policy, “‘That’s the Last Speech He Will Ever Make’: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,” click here.