Today in History: April 14; President Lincoln is assassinated #shorts #usa #history #america

Today in History: April 14.

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln, is shot by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, at Ford's Theater, and perishes the following day.

At approximately 10:10pm, Booth enters into Lincoln's private box, while he and his wife are watching a performance. He waits for a moment of laughter and executes the President.

In a brazen escape, he stabs Henry Rathbone, leaps down unto the stage, yells “Sic semper tyrannis” (thus always to tyrants)” and flees.

On April 26, Booth is caught hiding in a tobacco barn and slain.

Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, both expressed great sadness. Frederick Douglass called the assassination an "unspeakable calamity".

In 2021, C-SPAN conducted a Presidential leadership survey with 142 historians, and Lincoln was chosen as the top ranked US president, for the fourth time in a row.