USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Before John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, he had been plotting some kind of drastic action for months.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ford’s Athenaeum (later named Ford’s Theatre) opened in 1862 and is now both a theatre and a memorial to Abraham Lincoln. In 1866, the year after Lincoln was shot while attending a performance at the theatre, Congress acquired and converted the theatre building for office use.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ford’s Theatre is best known as the site of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer and actor. Originally named Ford’s New Theatre, Ford’s was built by Baltimore theater entrepreneur John T. Ford on the site of the First Baptist Church.