How died Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 1

On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.

John F. Parker: The Guard Who Abandoned His Post.
One of many unsolved mysteries regarding Abraham Lincoln's assassination is the story of John F. Parker. Parker, a member of Washington's Metropolitan Police Force, was assigned as President Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard the night of the shooting. However, Parker's chair outside the State Box at Ford's Theatre was vacant most of the evening. Nowadays, leaving the President unguarded is unconscionable, but in 1865 Parker was never punished for neglect of duty. In fact, for a time, he remained a White House guard. He kept his position as a Washington police officer until 1868 when he was fired for a totally unrelated reason.
SOURCES
http://parkergenealogy.tripod.com/id30.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html

Answer 2

John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next morning from a single gunshot wound to the back of the head, becoming the first American president to be assassinated. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth family of actors from Maryland and by the 1860s was a popular, nationally-ranked actor.[1]:ix He was also a Confederate sympathizer and expressed vehement dissatisfaction with the South's defeat in the American Civil War. He opposed Lincoln's proposal to extend voting rights to recently emancipated slaves. Booth, and a group of co-conspirators whom he led, planned to kill Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward in a desperate bid to help the tottering Confederacy's cause. Although Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the war was not yet over since Confederate General Joseph Johnston's army was still fighting the Union Army under General William Tecumseh Sherman. Of the conspirators, only Booth was successful in carrying out his part of the plot. Following the shooting, Booth fled by horseback to southern Maryland and eventually to a farm in rural northern Virginia, where he was tracked down and killed by Union soldiers twelve days later. Eight others were tried and convicted and four were hanged shortly thereafter. Over the years, various authors have suggested that Booth might have escaped his pursuers and subsequently died many years later under a pseudonym.

Answer 3

Re Abraham Lincoln - go to this website for complete coverage of the late President's assassination.

http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln.html

Abe Lincoln [God bless his memory] was shot dead by an assassin while watching a play in a theatre.

Assassin: John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in 1865.
http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln75.html

There is a drawing depicting the event, the assassination.

Since photography was still in it's infancy in c1860s, there are few photographs of the President's funeral. You had to sit stock still for at least 30 second to get a good image in those days.

There are some photographs of Lincoln available on the Internet.

Answer 4

He was Killed by John Wilkes Booth when he shot Lincoln in the back of the head While the president was watching a play at the Ford Theatre in Washington, DC.

Answer 5

John Wilkes Booth shot president Lincoln in the head while he was at the theatre,he then ran to a book depository and was found there.Lincoln had an aide called Kennedy
President Kennedy was shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald from a book depository and then ran to a theatre where he was found,Kennedy had an aide called Lincoln.
Weird!!!

Answer 6

Lead poisoning, at the hands of a man who thought he was more entertaining than the show that Abraham Lincoln was attending.

Answer 7

He was assassinated in Ford's Theater one night after the Civil War had ended. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth

Answer 8

He was watching a play in a theatre, and someone named John Wilkes Booth snuck up behind him and shot him in the head. He died within a few hours.

Answer 9

He died of lead poisoning. John Wilkes Booth shot him in the head.

Answer 10

Lincoln was Shot by Booth, but he was killed by his ignorant doctors. If they had left the bullet in his brain, he probably would have healed and continued on as president. They not onlly bled him repeatedly, which made him weaker, but they poked and prodded at his brain and attempted to remove the bullet, which is what actually killed him. Pretty freaking sad. More modern doctors tried to keep him alive, but the old guys insisted on killing him.