Victim
Abraham Lincoln
- Born
- 12 February 1809
- Died
- 15 April 1865, aged about 56
- Record
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Victim in The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Sixteenth president of the United States; shot at Ford's Theatre and died the next morning in the Petersen house.
1865 · Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C. · Executed
Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators. Read the case.
Dated events
A plan to kidnap Lincoln on the road to a hospital performance collapses when he changes his schedule.
Booth hears Lincoln speak from the White House about extending the vote to some Black men.
Booth shoots Lincoln at Ford's Theatre; at about the same time Powell attacks Seward at his home.
Lincoln dies at 7:22 a.m. in the Petersen house; Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president that morning.