On the night of April 14th 1865 President Abraham Lincoln attended a
performance at The Ford Theatre, in Washington. A single shot fired by
John Wilkes Booth hit the President in the back of the head. He slumped
to the floor, and died a few hours later without recovering
consciousness. Was Booth a lone assassin? Or was he part of a wider
conspiracy? A plot to replace Lincoln with General Ulysses S. Grant.