
Legal News for Tues 4/15 - Wrongful Deportation, Biosimilar Antitrust Lawsuit vs. Amgen, Federal Probe into DGE Changes at SEC
This Day in Legal History: President Lincoln Dies
On this day in legal history, April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died from a gunshot wound inflicted the night before by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. The assassination occurred at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where Lincoln was watching a play with his wife. He was shot in the back of the head and never regained consciousness, dying the next morning at 7:22 a.m. His death was the first assassination of a U.S. president and triggered a constitutional transition of power during a critical moment in American…
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