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On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died. The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from âThe Presidents of the United States of America,â by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey. Copyright 2006 by the White House Historical Association.
Crime. John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head at Fordâs Theatre in Washington, D.C. The assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, shouted, âSic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,â as he jumped onto the stage and fled on horseback. Lincoln died the next morning. Booth was a well-regarded...