It was a Good Friday that shocked America.
One hundred and sixty years ago, on April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln’s death the following morning came mere days after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia, thus ending the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history.
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