History for the day: President Lincoln is shot

History.com has this for 14 April:

On 14 April 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, effectively ending the Civil War.
Booth, a Maryland native born in 1838, who remained in the North during the War despite his Confederate sympathies, initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on 20 March 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, Lincoln failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in waiting. Two weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces.
In April, with Confederate armies near collapse across the South, Booth hatched a desperate plan to save the Confederacy. Learning that Lincoln was to attend a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater on 14 April, Booth masterminded the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William H. Seward. By murdering the President and two of his possible successors, Booth and his conspirators hoped to throw the government into disarray.
On the evening of 14 April, conspirator Lewis T. Powell burst into Secretary of State Seward’s home, seriously wounding him and three others, while George A. Atzerodt, assigned to shoot Vice President Johnson, lost his nerve and fled. Meanwhile, just after 2200, Booth entered Lincoln’s private theater box unnoticed and shot the President with a single bullet in the back of his head. Slashing an army officer who rushed at him, Booth leapt to the stage and shouted“Sic semper tyrannis! [Latin for Thus always to tyrants], the South is avenged!” Although Booth broke his leg jumping from Lincoln’s box, he managed to escape Washington on horseback.
The President, mortally wounded, was carried to a lodging house opposite Ford’s Theater. About 0722 the next morning, Lincoln, age 56, died, the first ( but not the last) president to be assassinated. Booth, pursued by the army and other secret forces, was finally cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia, and died from a (possibly) self-inflicted bullet wound as the barn was burned to the ground. Of the eight other people eventually charged with the conspiracy, four were hanged and four were jailed. Lincoln, the sixteenth President, was buried on 4 May 1865, in Springfield, Illinois.

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