What are facts about President Lincoln's assassination?

Answer 1

He was shot on Good Friday , at the Ford theater, where Abraham Lincoln had come to see a play called The American cousin. He was shot in the back of the head by a small time actor John Wilkes Booth.

Answer 2

Lincoln was attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater when actor John Wilkes Booth came up from behind an shot him. After Booth shot Lincoln he jumped from the balcony and as he jumped his spur caught on the bunting hanging from the balcony. This caused him to fall wrong on the stage and break his leg. As he ran out the to the back of the theater Booth stabbed another man in the hallway and he left Washington. Booth will later be caught at tobacco farm at the home of Richard Garrett near Port Royal, Caroline County, VA on April 26, 1865. He was shot in violation of orders by a Sergeant Boston Corbett who collected 1, 653.85 in reward. Corbett will later end up in an insane asylum after he tried to wipe out the Kansas legislature with two guns.

Legends began almost from the moment that Booth was dead. At least 20 men in two generations claimed to be Booth. One had the aliases John St. Helen and David E. George was a suicide in Enid, OK in 1903. He told friends he was the escaped Booth. His body was taken to Memphis Tennessee by a believer and for years it was shown as a mummy in shows touring the country. About a half a dozen skulls have been shown as the head of Booth and offered for sale to museums.