Moord op Abraham Lincoln

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Op 14 april 1865, kort voor het eind van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog, werd de zestiende president van de Verenigde Staten, Abraham Lincoln, vermoord door de acteur en politiek activist John Wilkes Booth, in het Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.. Lincoln overleed de volgende ochtend, op 15 april om 7 uur 22.

De moord was politiek geïnspireerd: Booth sympathiseerde met de zuidelijke Geconfedereerde Staten en was een verklaard tegenstander van de afschaffing van de slavernij in de Verenigde Staten, waar Lincoln voorvechter van was. Hoewel de Burgeroorlog al vrijwel beslist was, hoopte Booth, die een haat tegen de president had ontwikkeld, met zijn daad de positie van de Geconfedereerden te versterken. Hij had meerdere medeplichtigen gerekruteerd, waaronder George Atzerodt en Lewis Powell. Zij hadden de opdracht respectievelijk vicepresident Andrew Johnson en de minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, William H. Seward, te doden.

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