This Week in History April 11, 1865 President Lincoln gives what would be his last public address to a crowd on the White House lawn. April 12, 1869 Lincoln's stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, dies in Coles County, Illinois at age 80. April 14, 1865 President Lincoln is shot by an assassin while attending a play in Washington, D.C. and dies the following morning. Today in Lincoln's Life Lincoln's Words "I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you, is the question, "Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be preserved to the latest generation?" --Speech to Gov. Morton in Indianapolis, February 11, 1861

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