President Lincoln dies from the head wound John Wilkes Booth inflicted eight hours before

John Wilkes Booth had shot President Lincoln once in the head just after 10:30 p.m. the previous evening at  Ford's Theater in Washington. The stricken president was taken, gravely wounded but alive, to the Petersen Boarding House across the street.  Efforts to treat him were deemed futile and at seven twenty-two in the morning he quietly died there, never having regained consciousness.  (By John Osborne)
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Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2008), 2: 818-819.
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