Abraham Lincoln

16th President of United States of America

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds."

The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865. His death was the first assassination of a U.S. president

On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wikes Booth, an actor.