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Where was Abraham Lincoln shot on 14 April 1865?
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln behind the left ear with a .44 calibre Deringer pistol at about 10:15 p.m. The ball lodged behind the right eye. Lincoln never regained consciousness and died at 7:22 a.m. the next morning.
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The Actor Who Shot the American President in the Back of the Head at Ford's Theatre on the Evening of 14 April 1865 Five Days After the End of the Civil War John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford's Theatre, Washington, at about 10:15 p.m. on Good Friday 14 April 1865. Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. the next morning. Booth was a Confederate sympathiser. The conspiracy he led also targeted Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward the same night. Booth was killed 12 days later in a Virginia barn.
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