Enrolled in college/other institution of higher learning If applying for multiple Mid-America Council Scholarships, please check all you qualify for and submit one application. ____âRobert Mueller Memorialâ Eagle Scout Scholarship-A one (1) year scholarship in the amount of $2,500 awarded to one recipient. To be eligible for this scholarship you must meet the following criteria: 1. Eagle Scout currently registered in a unit. (If you are unsure, please contact Scouter Services at (402) 431-9BSA). 2. Attending an institute of higher learning in fall (does not have to be a 4-year university â can be a community college or occupational school).
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth became the first person to assassinate an American president when he shot and killed Abraham Lincoln in his box at Fordâs Theater in Washington.
17th President of the United States. On the night of April 14, 1865, while spending an evening at Ford's Theater, in Washington, D.C., President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, and he died the next morning.Johnson was also a target on that fateful night, but his would-be assassin failed to show up.hree hours after Lincoln died, Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the 17th president of the United States. In a strange irony often found in American history, the racist Southerner Johnson was charged with the reconstruction of the South and the extension of civil rights and suffrage to former black slaves.