This could drastically reduce construction time, eliminating the need for lengthy and costly road closures. The objective of the project was to evaluate through numerical simulations the feasibility of creating an entirely. prefabricated composite box girder bridge system and employing such a system for highway bridges. This included. evaluating the global response of the system, local response of the composite girder/deck units and joints, and the vibration. characteristics of the resulting bridge systems.
The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998) April 14, 1865. As four year of Civil War draw to a close, our country again faces unforgettable tragedy: the assassination of the President. Starring Lance Henriksen as the Great ...
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.