s.s+newspaper+on+Lincoln

On the evening of Good Friday April 14, 1865, whiling attending the play "Our American Cousin," President Lincoln was shot. He was shot in the back of the head by the his left ear. The bullet then stuck to the back of his right eye. He was attending the play with his wife,Mary Todd Lincoln, Major Henry R. Rathbone, and his fiancee, Clara Harris. Well after the play had started a darken figure stepped into the presidential booth, aimed, and shot Lincoln. The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, droped the gun and waved a dagger. Rathbone forced the killer to the railing. Booth then jumped the railing and feel on the stage floor. Were he broke his left leg. John then rushed out the back door and disappeared into the night on horseback. This night into the next day was so sad for the Lincoln family. I could only image.