Abraham Lincoln was shot dead by actor and southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth which watching in the play our American cousin at Fords Theatre , Washington DC. On April 9, 1865, Union general Ulysses’s. Grant accepted the surrender of confederate forces by general Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. The civil war was over and slavery was duly abolished in the US. Five days later, in Washington dc, the president who had led the north to victory through the agonizing and bloody conflict was dead. This killing of “honest Abe”- a national hero- changed the the path of history in ways that can’t be imagined. It certainly slowed any healing process between north and south, and traumatized the nation in the 19th century much as the assassination of President John F Kennedy did in the 20th.

What are the conspiracies behind his death?

The details of Lincolns murder are not in dispute. Any debate about the Lincoln assassination concerns the nature and extent of the plot. the major theories are as follows. The first theory is that Wilkes Booth was the leader of a small band of co-conspirators. Booth was motivated by his racist fury at Lincolns plans to extend voting rights to certain blacks. The second theory is that Lincoln was killed as part of a conspiracy of confederates who denied to accept lees surrender and who wished to rekindle hostilities. The third is that Lincoln was killed at the behest of a cartel of international bankers whose loans to finance the civil war he had declined.