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On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
Abraham [a] (originally Abram) [b] is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [7] In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; [c] [8] and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic ...
14th president Franklin Pierce (died October 8, 1869) 4 years, 176 days after 16th president Abraham Lincoln (died April 15, 1865) 1 year, 129 days after 15th president James Buchanan (died June 1, 1868) 19th president Rutherford B. Hayes (died January 17, 1893) 11 years, 120 days after 20th president James A. Garfield (died September 19, 1881)
Guests such as John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, had slept on the same bed that a month later would become the President’s deathbed. The bed in which President Lincoln died.
On October 5, 1818, Nancy Lincoln died from milk sickness, leaving 11-year-old Sarah in charge of a household including her father, nine-year-old Abraham, and Nancy's 19-year-old orphan cousin, Dennis Hanks. [23] Ten years later, on January 20, 1828, Sarah died while giving birth to a stillborn son, devastating Lincoln. [24]
Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
Although President Abraham Lincoln lived to see the effective end of the war, he did not live to see it through to its conclusion. Assassin John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, and he died the next morning. Lincoln's death was a shock to both North and South.