Abraham Lincoln's possessions sell for millions
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A massive Abraham Lincoln auction, the most extensive sale of items from America's 16th president, yielded big prices Wednesday in Chicago. Several of the top-selling pieces in the 144-item auction were from Lincoln's assassination by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April 14, 1865.
Following the Civil War and the assassination of the president, Douglas penned a letter that was republished in newspapers of the time.