On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth walked into an unguarded balcony box at Ford's Theatre and shot President Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head. Lincoln's bodyguard had left his post to get a drink, leaving the president unprotected. Booth didn't stop there. Before escaping, he also attacked a military officer in the chaos that followed.
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He sat in a private balcony box with his wife.
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His lone bodyguard abandoned his post to get a drink at a nearby tavern.
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An actor named John Wilkes Booth slipped into the unguarded box, waiting for the audience to laugh at a joke on the stage, and raised a pistol and shot the president in the back of the head.
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The assassin slashed a military officer with a hunting knife and leaped from the balcony, shattering his leg on the stage floor.
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He shouted in Latin at the stunned crowd and escaped through the back door.
