Fun with Maps ISSUE 2025-068

By Steve Kovacs (Introduction by Chuck Gibson)

LOVELAND, OH (April 14, 2025) – In today’s edition of Fun with Maps, we visit a dark moment in American history – anniversary of an assassination.  

Honest Abe

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1864.

The original plot by Booth, the assassin, was to kidnap Abe to force more prisoners of war exchanges between the North and South.  This morphed into assassination of key Union people, with only Lincoln being killed.

The show Lincoln was attending when killed at Washington’s Ford Theater was Our American Cousin, a popular comedy of the time about the half-witted American cousin returning to England to claim his inheritance.

Interestingly, Lincoln signed an order to establish the Secret Service just a few days earlier than his death.

We are presenting here Kentucky, Lincoln’s birthplace, by RT White from 1938.  Yes, it is a bit of a humorous pictorial.

Steve Kovacs and his wife Theresa reside in Loveland, Ohio where they raised their two children. He is a passionate collector of antique maps.

Visit his antique map boutique world-on-paper online. Watch for his daily feature Steve Kovacs: Fun with Maps here on Loveland Beacon.