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President Abraham Lincoln was at Ford's Theater seeing the play, Our American Cousin. Actor John Wilkes Booth took this as an opportunity to assassinate the President. Booth shot the President at point-blank range in the back of the head. Lincoln was pronounced dead April 15th, 1865.

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