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 On
the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor
and Confederate sympathizer, shot Abraham Lincoln as he watched a
performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington,
D.C. With Lincoln are his wife, Mary, and friends, Miss Clara Harris and Maj. H.R. Rathbone. Lincoln died the next morning at 7:22am. |
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The
Assassination of President Lincoln, lithograph by Currier &
Ives, 1865
Click image to enlarge. Copyright 2002 The Chicago Historical Society |
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