10:13 PM. John Wilker Booth, an actor at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., shoots President Lincoln in the head. Booth, a vocal pro-Southerner, is with a small band of Confederate stragglers who also unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State Seward. Booth escapes, breaks a femur, but manages to mount his horse and cross the Potomac. He is besieged in a farmhouse, which is then set on fire. As he flees, he is lynched by the mob. He is shot, and Booth dies. The rest of the gang is captured, tried, and sentenced to hanging or long prison terms.
