    
Title: Trial of Andrew Johnson Description: Newspaper row all lighted up on the evening that the trial of Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), American politician and seventeenth President of the United States (1865-1869), was in progress; the Radical Republicans in the House and the Senate hired thugs to pack the gallery and hoot and jeer down any statements Johnson attempted to make; these same Radical Republicans also attempted to bribe and intimidate the judges of Johnson's trial, but their considerable efforts to ruin the President on trumped-up charges that had no evidence did not work; he was acquitted, but only by a single vote in the U.S. Senate, and was thereafter a lame duck in the executive office; Location: Washington, D.C., March 1868 Keywords: impeachments, newspapers, presidents of the U.S., trials Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2325 x 1480 (3.44 MPixels) (1.57) Print Size: 19.7 x 12.5 cm; 7.8 x 4.9 inches File Size: 9.86 MB (10,335,066 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095777 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
