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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]
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.
Lincoln was shot once in the back of his head while watching the play Our American Cousin with his wife Mary Todd Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the night of April 14, 1865. [34] An army surgeon who happened to be at Ford's, Doctor Charles Leale, assessed Lincoln's wound as mortal. [35]
The previous evening, a man who wanted to be a hero for a lost cause had cowardly and callously shot President Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., at 10 p.m.
After Booth, a Conferderate sympathizer, killed Lincoln, he leapt to the stage, reportedly shouting, "The South is avenged!" Bettmann - Getty Images. July 2, 1881: James A. Garfield.
Most American schoolchildren learn that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in a theater. But that's where many people's understanding of Lincoln's assassination ends. I'm going to be brutally ...
Sergeant Thomas H. "Boston" Corbett (January 29, 1832 – disappeared c. May 26, 1888) was an English-born American soldier and milliner who killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln on April 26, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.Drawing from glass-slide depiction c. 1865–1875. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was the first U.S. president to be assassinated (though not the first to die in office).