Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln happened when President Abraham Lincoln and Mary went to Ford's Theater in Washington to see a played called My American Cousin. Shortly after 10:00, an actor named John Wilkes Booth, with a hatred for Negroes and a passion for the dead Confederacy, snuck up silently behind President Abraham Lincoln in the Presidential Box and assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln by firing one shot into President Abraham Lincoln 's head. Then John Wilkes Booth leapt to the stage, yelling Sic semper tyrannis - "Thus always to tyrants" - and fled into the night.

President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth

President Abraham Lincoln was carried unconscious across the street to a private home and laid upon a bed. Throughout the night his friends and family kept a vigil, though doctors had already pronounced the wound fatal. President Abraham Lincoln never regained consciousness.

When did President Abraham Lincoln die?

President Abraham Lincoln died the following morning, April 15, at 7:22 a.m. at the age of 56. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, standing nearby, stated: "Now he belongs to the ages." The day after President Abraham Lincoln 's death became known as Black Easter.

Millions of Americans grieved the loss of President Abraham Lincoln as if they had lost a father. Even his enemies spoke in praise of his courage and selflessness. A train carried President Abraham Lincoln 's body west from Washington to Springfield, Illinois. All along its route, people gathered by the thousands, silently weeping as the man who had preserved the Union passed by and into history.