From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst:
April 14
On April 14, 1865 - Good Friday, as it happened - John Wilkes Booth entered the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater and from a distance of about four feet shot Abraham Lincoln once behind the left ear, the projectile lodging behind his right eye. The President died the next morning.
‘Our country owed all her troubles to Lincoln, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.’
- John Wilkes Booth
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