On the evening of April 14th, 1865, the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was shot while attending a play in Washington, D.C.

The assassination wasn't a random act. It had been planned. Multiple people were involved in the The The weeks after the assassination saw the greatest outpourney of grief the country has ever experienced,

and one of the greatest manhunts.

Learn more about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, how it happened and and its aftermath, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The Civil War was by far the most traumatic and important event in American history.

After years of fighting, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people,

when General Lee finally surrendered on April 9, 1865,

everybody thought that the war was finally over.

However, it wasn't quite over.

There were embittered southerners who were intent on seeking vengeance

if they couldn't have victory.

The plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln began with such southerners in March of 1865.

The war was not going well for the South at this point, and everybody knew it.

Up until this point, the North and the South would regularly exchange prisoners of war. However, in March, the head of the Union Army of the Potomac, Ulysses S. Grant, decided to stop prisoner transfers to starve the Confederacy of men.

This angered one man in particular. the Confederacy of men.

This angered one man in particular, a well-known 26-year-old stage actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth.

Most of you simply know of Booth as President Lincoln's assassin.

However, at the time, he was a celebrity.

And this is really important because this fact has been almost totally forgotten.

He came from a Maryland family of Africa. This fact has been almost totally forgotten.

He came from a Maryland family of actors, and by 1865,

John Wilt's Booth was famous in his own right.

Fame was a little different in the 19th century,

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