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ASSASSINATION OF
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PRESIDENT LINCOLN
APRIL 14, 1865.
FORD'S THEATRE DRAPED IN MOURNING
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Post Caro
The Assassination of Président Lincoln.
On April 14, 1865, Mrs. Lincoln made
up a theater party to see Laura Keene at
Ford's Theater in “Our American Cousin.
On arriving, the President was wildly
cheered and the orchestra played “Hail
to the Chief !” During the third act, J.
Wilkes Booth, a handsome young actor,
glided into the President's box, the door
of which he barred, and armed with a
revolver and a dagger approached his
victim from the rear and fired the fatal
shot. Lincoln's head fell forward on his
breast. Booth, crying dramatically, “Sic
semper tyrannis!” stabbed Major Rath-
bone and vaulted the railing. The as-
sassin's spur, catching in one of the
American flags draping the box, threw
him to the stage below, breaking his leg.
Instantly he was up, and brandishing his
bloody knife at the dazed audience he
fled to the rear exit, where he mounted
his horse and rode for his life. Several
days after he was coralled in a barn,
which was fired, and while thus at bay
he was shot down. Lincoln died the
next morning, April 15, 1865. The fol-
lowing day Ford's Theater was draped in
mourning.
North
Besning
Gzorinu !
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