Abraham Lincoln assassination attempt (The President Lives)

On the night of April 14, 1865, conspirator John Wilkes Booth attempted to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, while he was attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C, only five days after the American Civil War had ended, when General Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac. If the assassination attempt had succeeded, Lincoln would have become the third president to die in office and the first to be assassinated. The assassination attempt was part of a larger attempt to assasinate the entire United States Government and revive the Confederate cause.