On April 15,1860's. He was strongly against the elimination of slavery, and he hated the fact that I was tryin 1865, I attended a play called "Our American Cousin" at Ford Theater. I was there with my wife and two of my invited friends. They do not know much about the man who shot me, but I can only tell you as much as I know. His name was John Wilkes Booth, and he was a popular actor in the g to give African American people the right to vote. I found out later that apparently he was at my second inauguration (which was March 4, 1865). His fiancé was the daughter of John P Hale, who was at the time the soon to be United States Ambassador to Spain. There are documents that read he later stated "What an excellent chance I had, if I wished to kill the president on inauguration day!"
I was sitting in my state box on the balcony, when he came behind me in which he thought was the funniest line of the play, so the laughter would cover up the sound of the gunshot, and shot me in the back of the head. When Major Henry Rathbone jumped up to try to catch the man, the man pulled out a knife and slit his arm. He quickly recovered and tried to ran after him. But he jumped onto the stage from the balcony and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis !" which is latin for "thus always to tyrants." He ran out of the theater unharmed, except for hurting his foot in the process. But he jumped onto a horse he had put outside to get away fast. Nobody really knows what happened to him for sure, but we know that he's dead, and that justice was served. I was the first president to be assasinated.
Elayna M.
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Hello Abraham Lincoln, I am Ronald Reagan, I was the 40th president of the United States. On March 30, 1981 with the secretary press, I was shot by John Hinckley Jr. In the process my lungs collapsed and was in the emergency room immediatly. Fortunetly I survived, leaving my wife, Nancy, completly worried. I was the first president that survived an assassination attempt. If you had, had the same medical treatment I had, I believe that you could have lived, accomplishing many great things like you did before. R.I.P. president Lincon.
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Hello President Lincoln my name is John F. Kennedy I was the 35th president of the United States and I like you was killed. When I was killed I was shot from long range while when you where killed you where shot from point blank range. I appreciate what you did to help abolish slavery unfourtunatly I still had work on getting the blacks and whites to get along.
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President Lincoln, this is the 3rd President Thomas Jefferson. By reading your post of your assanation, I found out many new things that I did not know previously on your killing. It was very clever yet devastating that Boothe planned to kill you during the comedic part so the laughter would cover up the gunshot. Thank you for all you did as president.
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