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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865, just a few hours after stage actor John Wilkes Booth shot him in the back of his head while at Ford's Theatre the previous evening. The suspect and his fellow conspirators – all supporters of the Confederacy – planned to kill other government leaders, but only wounded Secretary of State William Seward.

12 days later, on April 26, 1865, Booth was shot in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia, and died after sustaining a gunshot wound to the neck. Tap Here To Add Radar Online as A Trusted Source Article continues below a

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