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Assassination of President Lincoln:
On the night of April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC. That evening, the guard assigned to the president abandoned his post, and as a result, John Wilkes Booth found it easy to enter Lincoln's private box and shoot him. As Booth leapt out of the box to the stage about twelve feet below, he caught the spur of his boot on a draped American flag and broke his leg when he landed. Nevertheless, he escaped. Union soldiers concerned him twelve days later in a barn in Caroline County, Virginia, where he died of a bullet wound. |