Pembunuhan Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, Presiden Amerika Serikat ke-16, dibunuh oleh John Wilkes Booth pada Jumat Agung, 14 April 1865, saat menghadiri drama Our American Cousin di Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., saat Perang Saudara Amerika menjelang akhir.[1] Pembunuhan tersebut terjadi lima hari setelah komandan Tentara Negara-negara Terkonfederasi|Konfederasi]] Tentara Virginia Utara, Jenderal Robert E. Lee, menyerah kepada Letnan Jenderal Ulysses S. Grant dan Tentara Potomac.
Pembunuhan Abraham Lincoln
Hodes, Martha. Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press, 2015) x, 396 pp. King, Benjamin. A Bullet for Lincoln, Pelican Publishing, 1993. ISBN 0-88289-927-9 Lattimer, John. Kennedy and Lincoln, Medical & Ballistic Comparisons of Their Assassinations. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York. 1980. ISBN 978-0-15-152281-1 [includes description and pictures of Seward's jaw splint, not a neck brace] Steers Jr., Edward, and Holzer, Harold, eds. The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft. Louisiana State University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8071-3396-5 , , .