Photo of the Day

No. 566

it can’t be true

Bedroom in the Petersen House where Lincoln died. Photo taken the next day.

The shock of Lincoln’s killing — the first presidential assassination and coming within days of the peace of Appomattox — sparked a frenzy to own pieces of the crime.

One of several pillows used to comfort Lincoln in his last moments, now held in the Ford’s Theatre museum.

The clothing Lincoln wore; locks of hair clipped from his head; th…