AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
LINCOLNS ASSASSINATION
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timed his shot to coincide with a surefire laugh line.
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missed the president with his first two shots.
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also had intended to assassinate Mrs. Lincoln.
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first caused a distraction by setting a fire in a trash can.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lincoln Myths and Misconceptions Quiz: Answer 12 | Looking for Lincoln | PBS. 12. After shooting Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leapt from the balcony to the stage of Ford’s Theatre in Washington, breaking his leg in the process, and shouted “Sic Semper Tyrannis!”
Detailed explanation-2: -Shortly after 10:00 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged, ” as he jumped onto the stage and fled on horseback.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rathbone was sitting with his fiancée, Clara Harris, next to the president and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, when John Wilkes Booth entered the president’s box at Ford’s Theatre and fatally shot Lincoln in the head. When Rathbone attempted to prevent Booth from fleeing the scene, Booth stabbed and seriously wounded him.