7h 25min, apr 14, 1865 y - Lincoln's Assassination
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At the Ford's Theatre, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln as a part of a plot to kill the Vice President and Secretary of State too. This was the first assassination of an U.S. president, and resulted in the first hanging of a woman in the U.S. With his assassination, Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was dismissed.
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