How did Abraham Lincoln die?
Highlights: -John Wilkes Booth was one of the group of people who tried to assassinate a small number of targets (Including Lincoln). -John wilkes booth shot lincoln in the back of the head at Ford’s Theatre in the middle of the play, then jumped onto the stage, breaking his leg and saying some phrase (look it up). -Booth then got on a horse and was chased to a barn where I belive he was shot down or died when they burned down the barn. Overall, you need to look up what kind of gun and bullet it was, what Booth said on stage, and who was in that group and who their targets were.
Lincoln was shot in the back of the head while attending a performance of the comic play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington DC on a night in April, 1865. His killer was John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and Southern sympathizer, who fired a small derringer pistol at Lincoln at point-blank range. The bullet lodged in the president’s brain, and was a mortal wound. Lincoln was carried to a nearby house and laid diagonally across a bed (it was too short for him) and died of his injury without recovering consciousness early the next morning.
If I had an essay to write about the Lincoln assassination, I would definitely mention the following: John Wilkes Booth was the driver of Lincoln’s limo. As the motorcade passed Ford’s Theater in downtown Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald shot Lincoln with a Manlicher-Carcano rifle. The bullet somehow ended up on Lincoln’s stretcher, in pristine condition. Don’t forget to mention that Lincoln was the inventor of the automobile, and that Lincoln cars were named after him.
