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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for April 15, 2019
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April 15, 2019: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, died 154 years ago today on April 15, 1865.
Lincoln had attended a play at Ford’s Theatre the night before. Six days earlier, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army, effectively ending the U.S. Civil War.[1] An enraged actor and Confederate sympathizer—John Wilkes Booth—snuck into the president’s box at 10:15 on April 14 and fired a single shot into the back of Lincoln’s head.
The 56-year-old president was taken to a boarding house across the street and was pronounced dead at 7:22 the next morning.
Booth fled the scene and was killed after a 12-day manhunt.
The assassination was part of a larger plot to also kill the vice president and secretary of state. Those efforts failed, but four of Booth’s co-conspirators were executed on July 7, 1865.
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