Who was Abraham Lincoln's killer?

Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, and he died the next morning. It was Booth's second attempt to harm Lincoln. The first attempt, a kidnap plot that Booth tried a month earlier, failed because Lincoln did not appear where he was expected.

Lincoln was in a private box at Ford's Theatre with his wife and friends, where they were seeing the comedy "My American Cousin," when actor Booth, a Confederate loyalist, shot Licoln in the back of the head at 10:15 p.m. Booth escaped by jumping to the stage and fleeing on a broken leg, shouting "Sic semper tyrannis!" He was captured and killed on April 26. Four fellow conspirators were also captured and executed on July 7, 1865.