Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was
assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14,
1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre
in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln
died the following day at 7:22 am, in the Petersen House opposite the
theater. He was the first U.S. president to be assassinated, with his
funeral and burial marking an extended period of national
mourning.Occurring near the end of the American Civil War, the
assassination was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to
revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important
officials of the United States government. Conspirators Lewis Powell
and David Herold were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H.
Seward, and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President
Andrew Johnson. Beyond Lincoln's death, the plot failed: Seward was
only wounded and Johnson's would-be attacker lost his nerve. After a
dramatic initial escape, Booth was killed at the climax of a 12-day
manhunt. Powell, Herold, Atzerodt and Mary Surratt were later hanged
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