Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, a few days after the Civil War's official end, and passed away the next day. He became a martyr to the North and a cause for revenge against the South, from where the assassin had come. | Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, a few days after the Civil War's official end, and passed away the next day. He became a martyr to the North and a cause for revenge against the South, from where the assassin had come. |