History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2256 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Assassination
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The idea
John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate supporter, shot Lincoln at Ford's Theater on April fourteenth, eighteen sixty-five, during Our American Cousin.
In practice
Lincoln dying the following day, five days after Appomattox.
Where people slip
The anchor says Booth acted defending the Confederacy and white supremacy. Union troops killed him on April twenty-sixth in a Virginia barn.
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