The assassination on April 14, 1865 of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre, Washington, during the play Our American Cousin. After shooting Lincoln Booth leapt from the presidential box onto the stage to make his escape. After a contemporary illustration.

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