John Wilkes Booth shoots US President Abraham Lincoln in the head at Ford's Theater in Washington in 1865.
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on the evening of April 14, 1865, while watching a special performance of the comedy "Our American Cousin." At Ford's Theatre that night, he was accompanied by his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight-year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancée, Clara Harris. After the performance had begun, a man with a drawn derringer handgun entered the presidential box, aimed, and shot. The president knelt forward.
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