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Deringer pistol USA 1850
Lincoln and Mary Todd went out to attend a performance at Ford's Theatre. The play was Our American Cousin, a musical comedy. As Lincoln sat in the box, John Wilkes Booth, a Virginia-based actor from Maryland and a sympathizer of the South, fired a single shot from a round-shot derringer pistol into the president's head and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" - "so always to tyrants", motto of the state of Virginia). Booth jumped from the balcony onto the stage; the public believed that when he got up he was bowing but the truth is that he had broken a leg.
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