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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 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.
Abraham Lincoln was the president when he died.
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.
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.