The deringer gun,from Philadelphia, 1850. She was shot in the head by Lincoln as he went to attend a performance at Ford's Theatre. As he sat on the stage, John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland, a resident of Virginia and a Southern sympathizer, fired a single shot, with a pistol Derringer and shouted, "Sic semper tyrannis!. Booth jumped from the balcony onto the stage; the audience thought he was bowing, but the truth was that he had broken his leg.
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