- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia
On July 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued General Order 252 to stop prisoner exchanges with the South until all Northern soldiers would be exchanged without regard for their skin color
- Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination - HISTORY
On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D C
- assassination of Abraham Lincoln - Encyclopedia Britannica
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, took place at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D C , on the evening of April 14, 1865
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln - US History
After failing in two attempts earlier in the year to kidnap the President, Booth decided Lincoln must be killed His conspiracy was grand in design Booth and his collaborators decided to assassinate the President, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward all in the same evening Lincoln decided to attend a British comedy, Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theater
- Abraham Lincoln Assassination, Summary, Facts, Significance
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865 On April 14, Confederate sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot the President in the back of the head, mortally wounding him
- 160 Years Ago Today: The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
On the evening of April 14, 1865, just days after the end of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D C
- Spotlight: Lincoln Assassination — 160 Years – Times News Online
He then jumped on a train and followed Booth to Washington, D C , to warn President Abraham Lincoln and his staff Unfortunately, he was rebuffed in attempts to gain access Dejected, he returned to Tamaqua, after which Lincoln was, indeed, assassinated by Booth Jefferson told the story for the rest of his life He also named names
- Assassination – Abraham Lincoln Historical Society
On Friday, April 14, 1865 President Lincoln, his wife, a young army officer named Henry Rathbone and his fiancé, Clara Harris, were attending the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater when the President was shot to death by John Wilkes Booth
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