Categorized In: History , Political Figures
Source: Biography of Abraham Lincoln | www.whitehouse.gov
Description: April 15, 1865. Lincoln died the morning after being shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth, an actor.
Nov 05, 02:50am
1865 - On a visit to a Washington theatre, Lincoln is assassinated in his box by John Wilkes Booth