At 7:22 a.m., President Abraham Lincoln died, several hours after he was wounded at Ford’s theater in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson became the nation’s 17th president.
At 7:22 a.m., President Abraham Lincoln died, several hours after he was wounded at Ford’s theater in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson became the nation’s 17th president.