(A) He was stabbed
(B) he was strangled
(C) he died in a house fire
(D) ** He was shot with a small gun in the back of the head
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Concept note-1: -Abraham Lincoln was attending a performance of the comedy, Our American Cousin, at Ford’s Theatre, when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth in the back of the head with a . 44 caliber derringer.
Concept note-2: -Lincoln’s intracerebral hemorrhaging would have caused his ICP to soar. Whereas repeated probing of his wound allowed blood to escape from his skull and for a time relieved his elevated ICP, it also contributed to substantial blood loss. The brain is an extremely vascular organ and when injured bleeds profusely.
Concept note-3: -Where was President Lincoln shot? Did he ever regain consciousness? The bullet entered the back of his head, about an inch to the left of the medial line of the skull and at the level of his ear, traveled diagonally through his brain, and lodged behind the orbit of his right eye.