The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, one of the last major events of the Civil War, took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was shot by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while attending a performance of Our
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John Wilkes Booth and the Reward Poster issued by the War Department.