on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box, and fatally shot fired one bullet into the back of his head President Abraham Lincoln slumped in his chair, paralyzed and struggling to breathe. Although Booth leg broken escaping from Lincoln’s box, but Booth stood up and shouted the Virginia state motto, means, “Thus always to tyrants!” he succeeded in escaping Washington. A doctor in the audience rushed over to examine the paralyzed president. Lincoln was then carried across the street to Petersen's Boarding House, where he died early the next morning. Lincoln was the first president assassinated in U.S. history.
Why did Booth do it? He thought it would aid the South, which had just surrendered to Federal forces. It had nearly the opposite effect, ending Lincoln's plans for a rather generous peace. Booth did not act alone. This "wanted" poster appeared everywhere, offering a reward for the arrest of Booth and his accomplices. The conspirators were all captured, and Booth was shot while trying to escape from Union soldiers.
The whole country grieved the death of President Lincoln. As the nine-car funeral train carried President Lincoln home for burial in Springfield, Illinois, people showed up at train stations all along the way to pay their respects.