April 14

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, one of the last major events in the American Civil War, took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, at approximately 10 p.m. President Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre with his wife and two guests. Booth then jumped out of the box and on to the stage, breaking his leg in the process. Lincoln died the following day_April 15, 1865_at 7:22 a.m., in the home of William Petersen.
Lincoln's assassin, actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, had also ordered a fellow conspirator, Lewis Powell, to kill William H. Seward (then Secretary of State). Booth hoped to create chaos and overthrow the Federal government by assassinating Lincoln, Seward, and Vice President Andrew Johnson. Although Booth succeeded in killing Lincoln, the larger plot failed. Seward recovered from his wounds and Johnson's would-be assassin, George Atzerodt, left Washington, D.C. upon losing his nerve.

The Assassin
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