14 avr. 1865 - President Lincoln Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending a play at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred five days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Booth was a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland, though he never joined the Confederate army, he had contacts with the Confederate secret service.