President Lincoln Death, April 15, 1865. Son Robert Todd Lincoln Aided by Actor Edwin Booth c.1865
- April 15, 1865, Death of President Abraham Lincoln. Robt. Todd Lincoln Met Edwin Booth, Actor. Ed.
- Lincoln Shot at Ford’s Theater, Library of Congress. ~ Lincoln died at 7:22 am, April 15, 1865.
Shortly after 10:00 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., & fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln slumped forward in his seat, Booth leapt onto the stage & escaped out the back door. The paralyzed president was immediately examined by a doctor in the audience & then carried across the street to the Petersen House where he died early the next morning.
~ "[D]ying as he did die, by the red hand of violence, killed, assassinated, taken off without warning, not because of personal hate…but because of his fidelity to union & liberty, he is doubly dear to us, & his memory will be precious forever.~ Oration by Frederick Douglass, delivered on the occasion of the unveiling of the freedmen’s monument in memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D. C., April 14th, 1876… Washington, D. C...
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