Don Wright (Donald Nomako) (Oct. 6, 1934 – March 13, 2022)

Singer Loretta Lynn greatly expanded the opportunities
for women in the male-dominated world of country-
western music, was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky 
on April 14, 1932. She is 89 years young today.

Unlike some country-western stars that sang about a
rural working class life but lived an urban middle class
existence, Loretta Lynn’s country roots were authentic.

President Abraham Lincoln was  shot in the head at Ford’s
Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The assassin,
actor John Wilkes Booth (below), shouted, “Sic semper
tyrannies! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,” as
he jumped onto the stage and fled on horseback. Lincoln
died the next morning.

John Wilkes Booth’s pistol used to kill President Abraham Lincoln is displayed at a new exhibit at the Ford’s Center for Education and Leadership.  

The box where Abraham Lincoln was shot is seen at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC on April 1, 2015.