“Bang!” A loud noise came all throughout the audience of the Ford Theater. It was a gun shot right in the back of Lincoln’s crown. Six days after the civil war ended, on April 14th, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth while he was watching the play “Our American Cousin”. According to History.com , when John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln he shouted “Sic semper tyrannis” (History.com Staff). This translated to thus ever to tyrants which is the Virginia state motto. Abraham Lincoln died the next day. Booth had a plan to kill the President, the Secretary of State, and the Vice President in one night. Only John Wilkes Booth was successful, William Seward and Andrew Johnson remained alive, Seward was attacked but not killed.
