On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died from a gunshot wound he'd suffered the night at before at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. The assassin John Wilkes Booth fled the scene.The ...

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- 2:12 A.M. The President is still alive; but he is growing weaker. The ball is lodged in his brain, three inches from where it entered the skull. He remains insensible ...

April 15 (UPI) --On this date in history ... the American School for the Deaf), was founded at Hartford, Conn. In 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died of an assassin's bullet fired the ...

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War and worked to end slavery. His life was cut short early ...