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What were President Lincoln's last words, and where did he actually die?

Question #84322. Asked by guilmon3.
Last updated Aug 29 2016.

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Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre with his wife and two guests. The last words ever spoken by Abraham Lincoln were in conversation with his wife. Mrs. Lincoln whispered to her husband, who was holding her hand, "What will Miss Harris think of my hanging on to you so?" The president replied, "She won't think anything about it."

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_assassination

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The House Where Lincoln Died is located at 516 Tenth Street NW, Washington. D.C. and is managed as part of Ford's Theatre National Historic. It is an ordinary pre-Civil War (c. 1849) row house that was owned by William Petersen, who lived there with his family and used it as a boarding house.

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Lincoln died across the street from the theater at Petersen's boarding house, 516 Tenth Street NW
On the night of April 14, 1865 the mortally wounded president was carried to a back bedroom in this house. The Petersen family aided as they could, although on this night their home was no longer their own. Over 90 people would come and go through the house to pay their last respects to the dying president. Soldiers stood guard at the front door and were posted on the roof to keep the growing crowds at bay. While doctors cared for the president the Petersen family and some of the boarders spent the night in the basement. At 7:22 am, April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died in the back bedroom of this humble house.

link https://www.nps.gov/foth/the-petersen-house.htm

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