From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst
April 14
On April 14, 1865 - Good Friday, as
it happened - John Wilkes Booth entered the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater
and from a distance of about four feet shot Abraham Lincoln once behind the
left ear, the projectile lodging behind his right eye. The President died the
next morning.
‘Our country owed all her troubles
to Lincoln, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.’
- John Wilkes Booth
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