Abraham Lincoln

Death by Force

On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln, aged 56, attended a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. During the play, John Wilkes Booth, a 26-year-old actor and Confederate sympathizer, entered Lincoln's private box and shot him in the back of the head with a single-shot derringer pistol. Booth then leaped onto the stage, breaking his leg in the process, and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" (Thus always to tyrants) before escaping.

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HISTORY: Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

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