The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln ... of the president in death, which triggered a phone call from James Wheeler of Des Moines whose father was Lincoln's White House gardener [Thomas G.

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A black man has ascended to the White House 200 years after the birth of the president who ended slavery. History remembers Abraham Lincoln as ... and by late 1862 had abandoned it.

After his father's death in 1852, he abandoned ... hatred of Abraham Lincoln, whose actions he saw as unconstitutional. By the fall of 1864, Booth had begun plotting to kidnap the president ...