Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865, after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Booth, a Confederate sympathizer and actor, shot Lincoln in the head while he was attending a performance of the play "Our American Cousin." Lincoln died the following day.
Who Killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth was the assassin who killed Abraham Lincoln. Booth was born in Maryland in 1838 and was a well-known actor before the Civil War. He was a strong supporter of the Confederacy and was angered by Lincoln's policies, which he believed were destroying the South.
After the Civil War ended in 1865, Booth vowed to assassinate Lincoln. He made several plans to kill the president but was unsuccessful until April 14, 1865. On that day, Booth attended a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln was also in attendance, and Booth took advantage of the opportunity to shoot him.
Booth escaped from the theater after the shooting, but he was eventually hunted down and killed by Union soldiers on April 26, 1865.