150 years on, US remembers Lincoln's assassination

With the laying of a wreath and a lone trumpeter playing "Taps," Americans on Wednesday marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Civil War president Abraham Lincoln from an assassin's bullet. Several hundred people, some in period costume, gathered outside the downtown Washington row house where Lincoln passed away the morning after he was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater across the street. The 56-year-old Lincoln had barely 24 hours earlier told a