14 April 2017

History for the day: 1865: Lincoln is shot

1865: Lincoln is shot

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1865
Lincoln is shot
On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive... read more »
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