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On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater.
May 28, 2024 · assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.
Jul 21, 2022 · Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865. On April 14, Confederate sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot the President in the back of the head, mortally wounding him. Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., around 10:20 in the evening.
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford's Theatre that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's ...
Oct 29, 2009 · In April 1865, with the Union on the brink of victory, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln’s assassination made him a martyr to the cause of...
Apr 14, 2015 · President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is one of the saddest events in American history. Yet on the morning of April 14, 1865, the President awoke in an uncommonly good mood.
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, (April 14, 1865) Murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the U.S., at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
