"Our American Cousin," by Tom Taylor. It was a commedy
US President Abraham Lincoln was at the play of Our American Cousin. The comedy play was being held at the Ford theater. There in the presidential booth, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head. Lincoln died of the wound the next morning.
John Wilkes Booth is the man who killed Abraham Lincoln while he was watching a play.
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.
Abraham Lincoln attended a play at a theater and a man named John Wilkes Booth shot him from behind, in the back of the head.
Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln were watching a play when John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head.
On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth. Abraham Lincoln died the following morning, on April 15, 1865.
Shot In HeadJohn Wilkes Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln by shooting him in the back of the head as the president was watching a play at Ford's Theater, which is located in Washington, DC.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head on April 14, 1865 during a play at Fords Theater in Washington. The play was a comedy and when the crowd was laughing Booth shoot the pistol. LIncoln died the next morning in a house across the street. Booth hoped that the assassination would inspire the South to keep fighting even though Lee had surrendered his army the week before. Booth was part of a plot to also kill Vice-President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward.
John Wilkes Booth did killed Lincoln. When he was at a play.
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, at Ford's Theater, on April 14, 1865. President Lincoln died the next morning at the Petersen Boarding House across the street from Ford's Theater, at 7:22am.
"Our American Cousin" was the play being performed at Ford's Theater on 14 April 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
He got assassinated by John Wilkes Booth when he went to see a play in Ford's Theatre.