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The date was Good Friday, April 14, 18G5. A hush fell over the audience as the curtain rose upon "Our American Cousin" at the Ford Theater in Washington D.C
From his balcony box. President Abraham Lincoln was viewing the play when suddenly the unmistakable “crack” of a pistol pierced the atmosphere! Lincoln slumped into unconsciousness, felled by the bullet of John Wilkes Booth, a southern sympathizer in the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was tall and thin in stature, with sharp features in contrast to his gentle heart and an honest nature
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