The Chicago Tribune’s April 15, 1865 edition topped its lead Lincoln assassination story with eight headlines, stacked atop one another:
Terrible News
President Lincoln Assassinated at Ford’s Theater
A Rebel Desperado Shoots Him Through the Head and Escapes
Secretary Seward and Major Fred Seward Stabbed by Another Desperado
Their Wounds Pronounced Not Fatal
Full Details of the Terrible Affair
Undoubted Plan to Murder Secretary Seward
Very Latest … The President is Dying