Today we will be reminded that Lincoln was assassinated 150 years ago by John Wilkes Booth on April 14th. When today’s stories are published they will be viewed around the world in just seconds. But what they won’t report is that in 1865 reports of Lincoln’s assassination would take weeks to move around the world.  England and France, for example, would wait 11 days to hear the news. Barbara Rimkunas, an historian in Exeter, recently wrote about when a young Exeter man and friend to the Lincolns, Edward Tuck, learned of Lincoln’s death while serving in France. He wrote his [...]