April 14, 1865 –
So, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?
On the evening of Good Friday, just after 10 p.m., President Abraham Lincoln received a cranial gunshot wound from well-known actor, John Wilkes Booth, while attending a performance of the play, Our America Cousin at the Ford Theatre on this date. Booth shouted out “sic semper tyrannis” (thus always to tyrants), Virginia’s state motto, after shooting Pres. Lincoln. He leaped to the stage, breaking his left leg on impact, and escaped through a side door.
Lincoln died the following day, primarily from ill-advised attempts to extract the bullet lodged in his brain.
And so it goes
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