how did abraham lincoln die ?did he get set up?

Answer 1

Shot by an assassin in the back of the head. Died a few hours later. Do you have any more questions like this? I like answering these hard ones.

Answer 2

First ,he died by an assassin bullet to the head by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer and actor in the theatre profession.
Second, I believe there was a conspiracy which goes deeply into the Confederacy, and possibly included Jefferson Davis and their Montreal hookup. When Davis heard about a possible attempt on his life from a paper discovered on a failed Union excursion (possibly was a set-up here), Davis believed them and thought Lincoln violated the ethics of war and decided all was fair game including Lincoln himself. This is only speculation but it is something to think about.
Thirdly , with the assassination of Lincoln, Johnson and Seward,the Secretary of State, Booth and his conspirators believed the Confederacy would have new hope and the elimination of Southern way of life would not happen.
Fourth, I believe that Samuel Mudd was aware of the conspiracy unlike what happened because Booth would have to know quickly where to go and if something went wrong he had his ace in the hole to get across into Southern territory.

Answer 3

He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play of "Our American Cousin" at Ford Theater on April 14, 1865. Booth shot him, then jumped from the box down to the stage (he broke his leg doing this - hence the phrase "break a leg" ), and hid in a warehouse until he was found and apprehended. Lincoln was taken from the theater, and died a short time after from the gunshot wound to his head.

Answer 4

The Abraham Lincoln assassination, one of the last major events in the American Civil War, took place on April 14, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre with his wife and two friends. Lincoln died the following day in the home of William Petersen.

Secretary of State William H. Seward was attacked on the same day as Lincoln. His assailant, Lewis Powell, also attacked several other members of Seward's household. However, all of Powell's victims survived.

Lincoln’s assassin, actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, had also planned the attack on Seward. Booth hoped to overthrow the Federal government by assassinating Lincoln, Seward, and Vice President Andrew Johnson. Though Booth succeeded in killing Lincoln, the larger plot failed. Seward would recover from his wounds, and Johnson was never attacked.

John Wilkes Booth's original plot was to kidnap Lincoln and take him south, then to exchange Lincoln for the release of Confederate prisoners of war.[1]

Booth had organized a circle of conspirators to help him in attempting this. He recruited Samuel Arnold, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Lewis Powell a.k.a. "Lewis Paine" and John Surratt.[2] The meetings to plan the kidnapping were held at a boarding home run by Surratt's widowed mother Mary Surratt. Louis J. Weichmann was also suspected to be part of the conspiracy. He lived at Mary Surratt's boarding house and knew all the suspects. He was later an important witness in the trial of the conspirators.

Booth attended Lincoln's second inauguration on March 4, 1865, as the invited guest of his secret fiancée Lucy Hale, the daughter of John P. Hale, the serving United States Ambassador to Spain. In a photo taken at the event, Booth can be seen in a crowd above the president. In another crowd below the president, fellow conspirators David Herold, George Atzerodt, Edmund Spangler, Lewis Powell and John Surratt can be seen. Booth remarked afterwards, "What an excellent chance I had, if I wished, to kill the President on Inauguration day!"[3] though he had no plan to do so at the time.

On March 17, 1865, Booth learned that Lincoln would be attending a play, Still Waters Run Deep, at Campbell Military Hospital. Booth assembled his team on a stretch of road in an attempt to kidnap Lincoln as he came back from the hospital, but Booth's intelligence was wrong, and the president never came. Lincoln was instead giving a speech at the National Hotel in Washington D.C. which, ironically, was where Booth lived.

Answer 5

Abraham Lincoln died April 15, 1865, at Petersen's Boarding House in Washington, D.C..

Answer 6

John Wilkes Booth was the assassin. He was an actor at the theater. He was a racist who blamed Lincoln for freeing the slaves and thought he was committing an act of patriotism in assassinating him. (Did not feel the slaves should be civilians). 80-years later, Booth would've been labeled an Arian (or however that's spelled).

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln was not set up at all. in fact, it wasn't even someone who was against his views...per say. While at a theater, Jhn W. Booth came up behind him during the play and shot him. Booth was an anarchist and therefore hated the government.

Answer 8

He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who did so on his own,at what is now the LIncoln Theatre in Washington, DC who did so on his own

Answer 9

Shot in the back of the head at Fords Theater. He died a few hours later.

Answer 10

He was shot in the back of the head while at fords theater