Assassination of Abraham Lincoln jury could not reach a verdict and John Surratt was released. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 a.m., in the Petersen House opposite the theater. He was the first American president to be assassinated, and Lincoln's funeral and burial marked an extended period of national mourning. Occurring near the end of
Abraham Lincoln (1924 film short) Abraham Lincoln (1924 film short) Abraham Lincoln (1924) is a short film made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process . The film was directed by J. Searle Dawley, produced by Lee DeForest, is based on the 1918 play "Abraham Lincoln" by John Drinkwater, and stars Frank McGlynn Sr. as Lincoln. McGlynn also played Lincoln in the play on Broadway. Although no copies of the film appear to have survived, some photographs have been preserved. In 1923, DeForest and Dawley produced a short Phonofilm, "Lincoln, Man of the People", with Edwin Markham reading his poem of that title. In 1925, DeForest produced