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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play,[2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater.[3] He was the first U.S. president to be assassinated.[4] His funeral and burial were marked by an extended period of national mourning.

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., U.S.

April 14, 1865 (1865-04-14)
10:15 PM

  • Political assassination
  • shooting
  • stabbing

  • Abraham Lincoln (died April 15, 1865, at 7:22 AM)
  • John Wilkes Booth (perpetrator, killed on April 26, 1865)

John Wilkes Booth and co-conspirators

Revenge for the Confederate States

Near the end of the American Civil War, Lincoln's assassination was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the federal government. Conspirators Lewis Powell and David Herold were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President Andrew Johnson. Beyond Lincoln's death, the plot failed: Seward was only wounded, and Johnson's would-be attacker became drunk instead of killing the vice president. After a dramatic initial escape, Booth was killed at the end of a 12-day chase. Powell, Herold, Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt were later hanged for their roles in the conspiracy.

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. Mourning Lincoln, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780300195804

Hodes, Martha

(compiled and introduced by). President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning. Library of America/Penguin Random House Inc. 2014. ISBN 978-1-59853-373-6

Holzer, Harold

Holzer, Harold; L.; Williams, Frank J., eds., The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory, New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780823232260 Review

Symonds, Craig

. A Bullet for Lincoln, Pelican Publishing, 1993. ISBN 0-88289-927-9

King, Benjamin

. Kennedy and Lincoln, Medical & Ballistic Comparisons of Their Assassinations. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York. 1980. ISBN 978-0-15-152281-1 [includes description and pictures of Seward's jaw splint, not a neck brace]

Lattimer, John

and Holzer, Harold, eds. The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft. Louisiana State University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8071-3396-5

Steers Jr., Edward

Lincoln Assassinated!, Lincoln Assassinated!, Part 2.

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.

, ed. (April 29, 1865). "The assassination of Mr Lincoln". The Economist. Vol. XXIII, no. 1, 131.

Bagehot, Walter

The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred President, New York: Bunce & Huntington, 1865. This is a collection of essays, accounts, sermons, newspaper reports, poems, and more, with no editor or authors named, except , whose poem "Abraham Lincoln—An Horatian Ode" is included at pages 273–278.

Richard Henry Stoddard

Shapell Manuscript Foundation

Abraham Lincoln's Physician's Observation and Postmortem Reports: Original Documentation

Shapell Manuscript Foundation

First Responder Dr. Charles Leale Eyewitness Report of Assassination

Lincoln Papers: Lincoln Assassination: Introduction

Ford's Theatre National Historic Site

Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress

Lincoln Conspiracy Photograph Album at George Eastman museum

 – slideshow by Life magazine

The Men Who Killed Lincoln

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Research Site

The official transcript of the trial (as recorded by Benn Pitman and several assistants – originally published in 1865 by the United States Army Military Commission)

– detailed analysis and review of historic 1865 photograph

Hanging the Lincoln Conspirators

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