April 15th, 1865
【Name】
Abraham Lincoln
【Occupation】
16th President of the United States
【Age of death】
56
【Cause of death】
Assassination by close range gunfire
【Situation leading to death】
The Civil War, which divided the United States, ended with the Union victory with the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia led by General Robert Edward Lee.
The night of April 14, 1865, just four days after the breakup of the Union States was averted, President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary attended a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
President Lincoln, who had just been re-elected the previous November, began to deal with the reconciliation between the Union states and confederate states.
Many people living in Confederate states were dissatisfied with the outcome of the Civil War.
So the president was in danger.
The danger became real in that night
John Wilkes Booth, a sympathizer with the Confederate States, had planned to assassinate the president.
He was an actor and knew the internal structure of Ford's Theatre inside and out.
He easily located the box seat where the president was seated and approached him from behind.
Booth grabbed the gun and fired a single shot into the back of the president's head.
Although Lincoln escaped immediate death, he was taken in a coma to Petersen House across from Ford Theatre, where he never woke up and died at 7:22 a.m. the next morning.
It was the first time the United States had experienced a presidential assassination in its 90-year history.
