On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, “Our American Cousin,” President Abraham Lincoln was shot, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. Accompanying him at Ford’s Theatre that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight-year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone’s fiancée, Clara Harris. After the play was in progress, a figure with a drawn derringer pistol stepped into the presidential box, aimed, and fired. The president slumped forward. Why was President Abraham Lincoln? Actor John Wilkes Booth, who carried out the murder, yelled, “Sic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to … Continue reading The Horrible Assassination Of President Abraham Lincoln In 1865