Lincolns Assassination
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14 1865. John Wilkes Booth the killed Lincoln at Fords Theatre in Washington D.C. The attack came after the confederate general Robert E.Lee surrendered his massive army at the Appomax Court House in Virginia. The killing of Lincoln ended the civil war. John Wilkes Booth was a Maryland native born in 1838. He remained in the north during the civil war, he and several of his associates planned a kidnapping of the president and take him to richmond. The day of the planned kidnapping, Lincoln failed to show at the Confederate capital. That night at 10:15, John Wilkes Booth slipped into place where Lincoln has been occupied and hit Lincoln in the back of the head with his .44 caliber single shot derringer. Booth also stabbed the man that was charging at him to stop him. The search for John W. Booth was one of the biggest man-hunts in history. The search took over 10,000 troops, detectives, and police to track the killer down.