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 * Abraham Lincon's Assassination**
 * On the night of April 14, 1856 Abraham Lincoln accompainied by his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, and an officer, Major Henry R. Rathbone, with his fiancee, Clara Harris attended a special preformance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater on Tenth street.
 * The assassin was John Wilkes Booth.
 * Booth had gotten passed the gaurd outside the presidential box in which Lincoln was watching the show, and then drew out a pistol and shot Lincoln.
 * One reason for Booth's actions was revenge for the South, by taking matters into his own hands.
 * The bullet entered through Lincoln's left ear and was lodged behind his right eye, thus paralyzing the president.
 * A doctor quickly came to the box and then rushed the president across the street to a nearby hospital.
 * At 7:22am on April 15, 1856, Abraham Lincoln was pronounced dead.
 * Meanwhile, Booth was being sought after, later being shot and capturedwhile hiding in a barn near Bowling Greens, Virginia.
 * Later the same day Booth was shot on April 26, 1865 he had died.

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//**Works Cited:**// http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrintr.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/lincolnaccount.html