Edward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot Size:L: 70 x 70cm 'Ceceders in Limbo - ie

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by Robert Seppings

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14th July 1964

Edward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot Size:L: 70 x 70cm 'Ceceders in Limbo - ieEdward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot, 1865 (1955). Spangler (1825 1875) worked at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC at the time when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there by John Wilkes Booth. Spangler was involved in preparing the box that Lincoln used on the night of his death, and had been overheard speaking negatively of the president. He was arrested and tried for having been an accomplice of Booth's and was sentenced to six