Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865), American politician, thinker, and abolitionist of black slavery. The 16th President of the United States. During his term as president, a civil war broke out in the United States, known as the Civil War in history. Lincoln firmly opposed the division of the country. He abolished slavery in the rebel states and promulgated the Homestead Act and the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln defeated the secessionist forces in the South and upheld the rights of all men, regardless of race, to be created equal in the Union of the United States and its territories. Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Lincoln was assassinated. He was the first U.S. president to be assassinated, and the first Republican and party president. He once ranked first among the greatest presidents. He is also one of the most accomplished presidents in the United States (the other three are George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson). The front of the latest $5 bill features a picture of Abraham Lincoln.

In 2006, Abraham Lincoln was ranked first among the 100 most influential people in the United States by the authoritative American magazine "The Atlantic Monthly". [

In 2008, the British "Times" organized an expert committee to rank 43 American presidents as "the greatest presidents" according to different standards, and Abraham Lincoln ranked first.

Although Lincoln's move prevented the United States from fighting a war in more than 200 years, it offended many southern planters and slave-seeking fanatics at the time. John Wilkes Bush, Lincoln's assassin, Lincoln was a slavery fanatic. He and his associates allowed Lincoln to die in the mourning of countless American people.

John Wilkes Booth

Due to Abraham Lincoln's outstanding achievements, he was re-elected as President of the United States on November 8, 1864. However, before Lincoln could put his postwar policies into effect, tragedy occurred. At 10:15 pm on April 14, 1865, just five days after the surrender of the Southern troops, Lincoln was shot to death at Ford's Theater in Washington. Actor John Booth, who sympathized with the South, took advantage of the President's bodyguards to leave, sneaked into the President's box and shot Lincoln. On April 15, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America, passed away.

After Booth came from a famous family in the American theater industry, his superb acting skills have always been the object of pursuit by female theater fans. But Booth was a man of drama and worried about his country, and he was unequivocal in his political views: a staunch supporter of the Confederacy. During the Civil War, Booth gathered a group of people to operate secretly, including his childhood friends Mitchell O'Loughlin and Sam Arnold; George Atsrod, a Maryland carriage manufacturer; 23-year-old David Herold, a drugstore employee; Louis Powell, a former Confederate soldier; and John Sarratt, who once provided intelligence to the Confederate Army. The group once plotted in a Washington apartment to kidnap Lincoln in exchange for captured Southern soldiers, but these plans, like so many other plots, went nowhere.

In the two or three days before Lincoln was assassinated, Booth was drunk almost every day. His former conspiracy organization was shattered, leaving only Paine, Herold and Atzrod. At noon on April 14, he went to Ford's Theater to pick up the mail and accidentally saw a poster saying that Lincoln and Grant would attend the evening show. Booth was overjoyed and immediately summoned his best friends to implement their final plan: Atzrod went to To assassinate Vice President Johnson, Paine and Herold went to assassinate the recovering Secretary of State Seward, and Booth himself went to shoot the president.

Booth calmly entered the president's box at 10 p.m. Originally, the box had a lock, but the lock broke a few days ago, and no one reported it. Since Booth was originally an actor, none of the president's guards gave him any trouble. Policeman John Pike was supposed to be guarding the entrance from the lobby to the box, but he had no interest in watching the show, so he hid in another room to drink.

When Booth entered the box, he calmly aimed the gun between Lincoln's left ear and his back... *** shot 8 times, and Lincoln was hit 6 times, 5 of which were hits. Hit the mark. However, among the 1,675 spectators, only a few heard the gunshots. Even Mrs. Lincoln and several people who accompanied the theater were not too shocked by the gunshots. Because Booth chose to shoot at the climax of the play, it was difficult to hear the audience's laughter mixed with the gunshots.

There was chaos in the box. Booth jumped from the box onto the stage, turned around and shouted to the audience: "This is the fate of all tyrants." This is a famous saying in Virginia. After Lincoln's assassination, Booth fled south, but as the government launched a nationwide search, Booth was found in a locked pigsty and was eventually shot to death by someone outside. In the decades after his death, many people claimed that they were the real Booth, and there was another person who claimed to be Booth twice, decades apart, but in fact it was all because these people wanted to become famous through this. From these This incident can reflect Lincoln's extremely high status in the minds of Americans.