PRESIDENT LINCOLN SHOT BY AN ASSASSIN!
On the evening of April 14th, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. by John Wilkes Booth, a rebel sympathizer identified by witnesses within minutes of the shooting.
The President, who had steered the United States through a bitter war against the British Empire and the most complex diplomatic landscape in the nation's history, died the following morning. The news spread through telegraph lines across the country within hours, producing a wave of grief and fury in the United States unlike anything seen in living memory.
An investigation regarding potential Confederate and British involvement has been launched by the National Intelligence Agency.
Vice President Andrew Johnson is immediately sworn in as the 17th President of the United States.