On April 14, 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, while attending a play at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., allegedly by conspirator John Wilkes Booth.


Lincoln Papers

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

(Image: Harper's Weekly April 29, 1865; http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1865/April/booth-killing-lincoln.htm)