On Good Friday April 14, 1965 while watching a play at Ford's Theater Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a gunshot wound to the head. The person who fired the fatal shot was John Wilkes Booth.
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Abraham Lincoln was the president when he died.
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, was shot in Fords Theater, Washington D.C. while watching the play Our American Cousin.
The only family member with Abraham Lincoln when he was shot in the President's Box at Fords Theater,was his wife, Mary. Major Henry Rathbone and his fiance, Clara Harris, were also there.
He died in Springfield,Illonis where he lived got shot right in the head by John Wilkins Booth.
The last name of the man who shot President Lincoln was Booth. John Wilkes Booth was an actor. He shot President Lincoln in Fords Theater on the opening night of "Our American Cousin" in 1865.