Where did Booth assassinate President Lincoln?
Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
The White House
The Capitol Building
Lincoln Memorial
Answer
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., during a performance of the play Our American Cousin. Booth shot Lincoln in the head at close range, and the President died the next morning. Booth was a Confederate sympathizer who was angry about the Union victory in the American Civil War. He was captured and killed several days after the assassination.
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