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He died on April 15, 1865. He was shot the previous day, on April 14, at Ford's Theater in Washington DC.

Abraham Lincoln was attending a play at the Ford Theater in Washington DC. A man by the name of John Wilkes Booth came up from behind, while the president and his wife were sitting in an unguarded balcony box, and shot him in the back of the head.

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