Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C will forever mark the assassination
of Abraham Lincoln. On April 14, 1865, while attending a play called Our
American Cousin, the event marks the first successful assassination of an
United States president in history. The shooting was carried out by the
well-known stage actor John Wilkes-Booth, as part of a larger conspiracy and attempt
to revive the Confederate cause. Booth entered the Presidential Box and shot
the president at point-blank range. The wound turned out to be fatal, when
Abraham Lincoln diet the very next morning.
