He was shot April 14, 1865, and died April 15, 1865.
No US President was shot in 1875. Lincoln was shot and killed in 1865 and James Garfield in 1880.
John Wilkes Booth
He was assassinated, shot in the back of the head while at a theater.
because he killed the president Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln was shot and later died from his wounds in April, 1865
The gun that killed President Lincoln is a .44 caliber, singe-shot flintlock pistol, which is about 6 inches in length.
Yes, they did punish John Wilkes Boothe. They found him when he was running from the theatre where he shot Abraham Lincoln. He was hiding out in a barn and the police set it on fire and shot at him and hit him somewhere in his midsection. I believe that shot killed him.
Abraham Lincoln was the President for five days after the war ended, then he was shot and killed. Andrew Johnsonbecame President when Lincoln was killed and was President until March 4, 1869 when he was replaced by Gen. Ulysses Grant.
Booth ran from the Ford's Theater after shooting the president. He fled to Virginia where he was later shot and killed.
Yeahh.. He was president. He was watching a show when his assasin just came up behind him and killed him. (shot him.)
A single-shot .44 caliber derringer pistol.
He was shot and killed while president so there was no after the presidency since he was dead.