Mr.Lincoln was watching the play " Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater, Actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head . Booth then jumped off the balcony and his spur caught on the bunting hanging off of it. He broke his leg and limped off stage to a waiting horse. Lincoln was carried across the street to a room on the second floor of a boarding house. He will linger until the morning when he dies of his wounds.
The stairway was unguarded and Booth, being an actor, was familiar with the layout of the theater.
John Wilkes Booth killed him in ford's theater.
It is still there and it is a mueseum and you can go there and actually stand next to the booth that Lincoln was shot in.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a promising actor and Confederate sympathizer. After Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theater, he ran from the Theater and fled south with accomplice David Herold. The two made a quick stop at the house of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who set Booth's leg (Booth broke it when he jumped from the president's box to the stage at Ford's Theater). Then they hid in a pine thicket for nearly a week. Eventually detectives caught up with them at Garrett's Farm in the South. Booth and Herold were hiding in the barn when detectives surrounded it. Herold surrendered, but Booth refused. The detectives set the barn on fire, and then Booth was shot by the soldier Boston Corbett. He was taken out of the barn and suffered for a while, but eventually died. It was twelve days after he shot Lincoln.
Are you are asking about John Wilkes Booth who shot Abraham Lincoln? President Lincoln was assassinated on a balcony over looking the stage at the Ford Theater. After the shooting, Booth jumped from the balcony onto the stage, and he shattered his leg while landing.
Booth shot Lincoln in a box seat (next to the balcony), then jumped down to the lower level.
he jumped off the balcony, broke his leg , but still escaped
John Wilkes Booth planned on shooting President Lincoln in the back of the head in the balcony of Ford's Theater.
Sic Semper Tyrannus (thus always to tyrants)
It's been said he jumped about 9-12 feet.
he jumped out of a building...
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head.
John Wilkes Booth was not welcome at Fords Theater.
Mr.Lincoln was watching the play " Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater, Actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head . Booth then jumped off the balcony and his spur caught on the bunting hanging off of it. He broke his leg and limped off stage to a waiting horse. Lincoln was carried across the street to a room on the second floor of a boarding house. He will linger until the morning when he dies of his wounds.
The stairway was unguarded and Booth, being an actor, was familiar with the layout of the theater.
John Wilkes Booth killed him in ford's theater.