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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]
1865 illustration of Lincoln burial (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper) The receiving vault (foreground) and the tomb (background)The Lincoln Tomb is the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States; his wife Mary Todd Lincoln; and three of their four sons: Edward, William, and Thomas.
Abraham Lincoln [23] April 15, 1865 [G] Lincoln Tomb, [K] Oak Ridge Cemetery: Springfield: Illinois: 17 ... Date of death Burial place City State Site image 1 John ...
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.
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 ...
Wednesday is the 150th anniversary of the death of President Abraham Lincoln, and while most Americans know the history of his assassination, many aren't aware of some of the odd facts related to ...
Lincoln's Cabinet members, generals, and various members of Congress were allowed to see the President, except Secretary of State William Seward, who had been nearly killed in an assassination attempt by Lewis Powell, one of John Wilkes Booth's henchmen, in the same night as the assassination of Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln died in the house on ...
Abraham Lincoln, an 1869 portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy Lincoln in February 1865, two months prior to his assassination. As a young man Lincoln was a religious skeptic. [349] He was deeply familiar with the Bible, quoting and praising it. [350] He was private about his position on organized religion and respected the beliefs of others ...