Inside The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln And The Great Emancipator’s Final Hours

And, at 10:15 p.m., John Wilkes Booth waited for the audience to laugh, then shot Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head. The barn they’d slept in had been locked by the property’s owners — who feared that Booth and Herold would rob them during the night — putting them at the mercy of two detectives and the 16th New York Cavalry regiment. Soon after Abraham Lincoln’s death on the morning of April 15, 1865, his vice president, Andrew Johnson, took the oath of office and became the nation’s 17th president.

Author: Kaleena Fraga

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