article_snippet: Abraham Lincoln was shot dead by actor John Wilkes Booth as actor John Wilkes Booth watched a play in a private box at Ford's Theatre, Washington DC, on the night of April 14 that year.
article_snippet: An illustration shows actor John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.
article_snippet: In the weeks before the assassination, Booth was staying at the National Hotel - less than six blocks from Ford's Theatre.
article_snippet: a member of the president's inner circle died in Iowa a few years later.
article_snippet: Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth, will be published in Britain by Oxford University Press on May 28.
highlights_snippet: Abraham Lincoln was shot dead in Washington DC theatre on April 14 1865 .
  