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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.
Today, Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth while watching a play at the Fords' Theater in Washington, DC. Lincoln, was actually the first American President to be assassinated. He died the next morning.