Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

By then,Lincoln was dead. On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, Southern sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

On April fourth, the nation's top civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King,Junior, was shot and killed in Memphis,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

But he will be remembered as much for his shot-blocking in the NBA as for his charity work in Sudan.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

So what happens? He gets a title shot outdoors in the ballpark, and what do I get, a one-way ticket to Palookaville.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This week in our series, Harry Monroe and Kay Gallant tell what happened after President Garfield was shot.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

The man who shot James Garfield -- Charles Guiteau -- was tried by a court in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

A Confederate sympathizer shot the president at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April fourteenth, eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

In April of nineteen ninety-four the musician shot and killed himself at his home in Seattle,Washington.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, a Southern supporter shot President Lincoln in Ford's Theater in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Without firing a shot, Brown now controlled the three places he wanted in Harpers Ferry.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

He shot himself to death in nineteen sixty-one, just as his father had years earlier.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

But in the thick of the struggle, General Johnston was shot in the leg.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Kennedy was shot and killed in Los Angeles shortly after giving his victory speech.

VOA: special.2009.08.30