President Abraham Lincoln dies after being <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln" id="mwbQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Assassination of Abraham Lincoln">shot</a> the previous evening by actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth" id="mwbg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Wilkes Booth">John Wilkes Booth</a>.<sup about="#mwt69" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_15#cite_note-11" id="mwbw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwcA">[11]</span></a></sup> Three hours later, Vice President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson" id="mwcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Andrew Johnson">Andrew Johnson</a> is sworn in as president.<sup about="#mwt73" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_15#cite_note-12" id="mwcg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwcw">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt66" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFSteers2014">Steers, Edward J. Jr. (2014). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2Sl9BAAAQBAJ" id="mwB0k" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB0o">Lincoln's Assassination</i></a>. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press. pp.<span id="mwB0s" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>72–74. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB0w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB00" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780809333493" id="mwB04" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780809333493"><bdi id="mwB08">9780809333493</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt66" class="Z3988" id="mwB1A" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Lincoln%27s+Assassination&amp;rft.place=Carbondale%2C+Ill.&amp;rft.pages=72-74&amp;rft.pub=Southern+Illinois+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2014&amp;rft.isbn=9780809333493&amp;rft.aulast=Steers&amp;rft.aufirst=Edward+J.+Jr.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D2Sl9BAAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+15"></span></span>