‘Our country owed all her troubles to Lincoln, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.’ - John Wilkes Booth

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.