Bedroom at Petersen House, where President Abraham Lincoln died in 1865 after being shot by assassin John Wilkes Booth, across the street at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.. Although there is nothing that is original in this room, the layout is exactly the same including the art on the walls. It is a very small room and looks somewhat distorted though the cameras lens. The U.S.A. President ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809 - 1865), dead April 15th 1865.