Multiple choice general knowledge

Who killed US President Abraham Lincoln?

  1. Lee Harvey Oswald

  2. John Hinckley

  3. John Wilkes Booth

  4. Michael Schiavo
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Explanation

John Wilkes Booth, a famous American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head during a performance of 'Our American Cousin', believing the act would aid the South in the Civil War.

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