On Friday, April 14, 1865, sometime between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m., actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865) shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., during a performance of "Our American Cousin," a popular English farce. Soldiers carried the unconscious President across 10th Street to the Petersen Boarding House, because doctors feared he would not survive the carriage ride back to the Executive Mansion, about a mile away. In the boarding house, he was placed diagonally on a bed in a back room rented by an army clerk. Despite the attendance of the best doctors in Washington, Lincoln’s wound proved mortal. He died at 7:22 a.m. on Saturday, April 15th.