Why was President Lincoln assassinated? The assassination of President Lincoln was at one point the talk of the century but now is just a piece of history. On April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater by a malignant man named John Wilkes Booth (Culham, 2010). After the shot rang out in the theater Both had to escape, jumping from the box, catching his foot on the curtain he fell to the ground. Although Booth was hurt, he was still ambulatory. As the day past the president was getting worse, President Abraham Lincoln died April 15, 1865 At 7:22 am. Days passed after the diffusion of Lincoln's killing, but Booth was not found. Finally, on April 25, 1865 John Wilkes Booth was found and killed (Brown, 2014). Although