Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on 14 April 1865 and died the next morning, a month into his second term and near the Civil War's end. Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth shot him during Our American Cousin; he died at the Petersen House. Booth had planned a kidnapping but decided to assassinate Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Andrew Johnson.