when was lincoln assassinated

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President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a performance of the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth and died the next morning, April 15, 1865, at 7:22 a.m. in a boarding house across the street from the theater.