On the evening of Good Friday,April 14, 1865, 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.
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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, the 16th president of the United States, died on this date, primarily from ill-advised attempts to extract the bullet lodged in his brain.
The president’s death came only six days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.
So, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?
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