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The First Presidential Assassination Attempt (2016x235)

Date de diffusion: Nov 05, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Why Do People Tell Actors to Break a Leg? https://youtu.be/9JZMvEZTIuY?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 What Really Started World War I https://youtu.be/KiZn7CbjHPQ?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: The first assassination of a President is both well-known and well-documented. On April 14, 1865, actor and southern advocate John Wilkes Booth shot the 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s theater. Lincoln died from his wounds the next day. (Incidentally, shortly before this, John Wilkes Booth’s brother saved Abraham Lincoln’s son’s life.) Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/12/first-presidential-assasination-attempt/ Sources: