Lincoln is mortally wounded by assassin John…
April 1865 CE
Lincoln is mortally wounded by assassin John Wilkes Booth while attending a play in Ford's Theatre in Washington on April 14, Lincoln.
Doctors attend to the President in the theater then move him to a house across the street.
He goes into a coma upon being laid diagonally on a bed.
On the same day, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell, one of Booth’s co-conspirators.