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160 years ago: Mansfield’s Roeliff Brinkerhoff shared his eyewitness account of Lincoln’s assassination

MANSFIELD — Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on Good Friday, April. 14, 1865. The president died the next morning. In the theater audience that night was Mansfield resident, […]

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