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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, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
He died from complications of what at the time was believed to be pneumonia. [3] The second U.S. president to die in office, Zachary Taylor, died on July 9, 1850, from acute gastroenteritis. [4] While Abraham Lincoln was the third U.S. president to die in office, he was the first to be killed.
Guests such as John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, had slept on the same bed that a month later would become the President’s deathbed. The bed in which President Lincoln died.
It is best known for being the house where President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865 after being shot the previous evening at Ford's Theatre located across the street. The house was built in 1849 by William A. Petersen, a German tailor. Future Vice-President John C. Breckinridge, a friend of the Lincoln family, rented this house in 1852. [2]
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C., United States Assassination of Alexander II on March 13, 1881, St. Petersburg , Russian Empire Assassination of James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881, Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station , Washington D.C. , United States
16th president Abraham Lincoln (died April 15, 1865) 3 years, 47 days before 15th president James Buchanan (died June 1, 1868) 4 years, 176 days before 14th president Franklin Pierce (died October 8, 1869) 8 years, 327 days before 13th president Millard Fillmore (died March 8, 1874) 20th president James A. Garfield (died September 19, 1881)
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. [2] He was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln , an Englishman who migrated from Hingham, Norfolk , to its namesake, Hingham, Massachusetts , in 1638.