2-356-112 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Assassination of President Lincoln, Washington DC, 1865 (c1880). On Good Friday, 14th April 1865, while at Ford's Theatre, Washington, Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth and died the following morning. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.