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An actor, a president and the crime of the 19th century 02:39. Washington (CNN)On April 14, 1865, an actor and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington. The following morning, less than a week after the end of the Civil War, Lincoln would become the first American president killed in office.
Crime. John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head at Fordâs Theatre in Washington, D.C. The assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, shouted, âSic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,â as he jumped onto the stage and fled on horseback. Lincoln died the next morning. Booth was a well-regarded...