MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was attending the play “Our American Cousin” when Booth snuck into his ...
When John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln and leaped from Ford’s Theatre’s presidential box to the stage, he began a 12-day odyssey which took him from Washington, D.C. through Prince ...