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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 fiancée, Clara Harris.
A mourning nation turned out by the hundreds of thousands to say good-bye to their President, the first to fall by an assassin's bullet. President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play on April 14, 1865.
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...
Apr 14, 2015 · Health Apr 14, 2015 6:04 PM EDT. 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...
Key People. 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.
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. 1865, March 17. A plot hatched by John Wilkes Booth to kidnap President Lincoln is aborted when the president fails to make a scheduled trip to a soldiers' hospital. The possibility of political assassination increasingly enters the mind of the bitter and restless Booth. 1865, April 14.
In the attempt to capture him, the barn was set on fire and Booth either shot himself or was killed in the shoot-out. The wound to Lincoln's head took the President's life early the next morning. For the citizens of the Union, Lincoln's death muted the celebration of victory over the Confederacy.
