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A single-shot .44 caliber derringer pistol.

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Abraham Lincoln got shot in the head with a revolver.

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I believe you are asking what type of gun killed President Lincoln. It was a .44 caliber Derringer Pistol.

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Abraham Lincoln grandfather was killed by?

Abraham Lincoln's grandfather, also named Abraham Lincoln, was not killed. He died of natural causes in 1786 in Virginia. Abraham Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln, was the son of the elder Abraham Lincoln and was the grandfather of the famous president.


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A Derringer pocket pistol single-shot was used to kill Lincoln.


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John Wilkes Booth shot him from behind when Lincoln was watching the play Our American Cousin in a balcony next to the stage. Booth jumped from the balcony and caught his spur on bunting, hit the stage wrong, and broke his leg. He limped out to the back of the theater where is horse was waiting and rode out of Washington. Lincoln was carried across the street where he was put in a bed in a second floor room and died at 7 AM the next morning.


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Ford's Theatre Museum combines a remarkable collection of historic artifacts with a variety of interactive exhibits to tell the story of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. Using environmental recreations, videos and three-dimensional figures, the museum transports visitors to 19th-century Washington, where they can follow Lincoln from his arrival in Washington in 1861. Exhibits explore Lincoln's Presidential cabinet, what life was like in the Lincoln White House, various Civil War milestones and generals, Lincoln's great speeches and the Assassination conspiracy. The collection of artifacts includes the deringer that John Wilkes Booth used, as well as a replica of the coat that President Lincoln wore the night he was shot. (Taken from the National Park Service site for Ford's Theatre).