The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln An Annotated Bibliography of Presidential Assassinations 1. Lorant, Stefan, Abraham Lincoln. New York, Harper And Brothers., 1957. This section of the book talks about President Lincoln's Assassination. President Lincoln did not feel that anyone would ever want to kill him. Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865. He was going to see a play at Ford's Theatre. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Booth had been planning this conspiracy for a long time. This assassination was one of many attempted ones by Booth and his fellow conspirators. Booth