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Abraham Lincoln was shot on the evening of April 14, 1865, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., while watching the play Our American Cousin. The assassin was John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer who strongly opposed Lincoln’s policies, especially the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in the Civil War. Booth sneaked into the presidential box and fired a single-shot derringer pistol into the back of Lincoln’s head at close range.

Lincoln was carried across the street to a boarding house, where he remained unconscious overnight. He died early the next morning on April 15, 1865, at 7:22 a.m. Booth escaped temporarily but was later tracked down and killed by Union soldiers. Lincoln’s assassination shocked the nation and marked a tragic end to the Civil War era, just days after the Confederacy’s surrender.

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