John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in Fords Theatre on 14th April 1865.
Abe Lincoln was assassinated on Friday, April 14th, 1865 in Fords Theatre by John Wilkes Booth at exactly 10:15pm.
On April 14th 1965, Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. This is said to be one of the darkest hours in U.S. history. He died the following morning.
He didn't affect the Civil War, because Lee had surrendered by the time Booth assassinated Lincoln. He affected the post-war Reconstruction by letting the Vice-President Andrew Johnson into the top job.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14th 1865. He was shot in the head while attending a comedy performance ("Our American Cousin") at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. His murderer was John Wilkes Booth.
Because someone farted on him and he passed out
he was shot on April 14th 1865 by a man named john Wilkes booth who came behind him in the presidents box and shot him in the head below the left ear with a 44 caliber deringer and also had a Rio grande camp knife.
Shot on April the 14th of 1861 while attending a play, Abraham Lincoln died early the next morning -- on the 15th. His assassin, the Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, eluded capture until being corned and killed on April 25th by Federal agents.
no Lincoln was killed by john Wilkes booth on April 14th 1865 during the the 3rd act at fords theatre Washington dc across from fords theatre was a warehouse where Lincoln died at about 7:30 in the morning the day after Lincoln was shot by a pistol
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Southern sympathizer, shot President Abraham Lincoln, at Ford's Theater in Washington DC. President Lincoln died nine hours later, at 7:22 AM, on April 15, 1865.The assassination was planned and carried out by as part of a larger conspiracy in an effort to rally the remaining Confederate troops to continue fighting.---On April 14, 1865, President and Mrs. Lincoln attended the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. As Lincoln sat in his state box in the balcony, Booth came up behind him and waited for what he thought would be the funniest line of the play, hoping the laughter would muffle the noise of the gunshot. When the laughter started, Booth jumped into the box and aimed a single-shot, round-slug 0.44 caliber Deringer at Lincoln's head, firing at point-blank range. The President, age 56, was fatally wounded and died at 7:22:10 AM the following day.Booth escaped with a broken leg after jumping to the stage below. But two weeks later Federal troops tracked him down at a farm in rural Virginia, and Booth was shot and killed. Eight others involved were tried and convicted by a military tribunal : four were hung, one died of yellow fever in prison, and the other three were pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to die of assassination. He was shot in the back of his head by John Wilkes Booth, a well known actor and Confederate spy from Maryland. Lincoln's assassination was at Ford's Theatre in Washington, where he had been watching Our American Cousin on the 14th of April, 1865. He was pronounced dead on the 15th of April, 1865 after a 9 hour coma.
14th April, 2009, was a Tuesday.