,,On April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater to see a comedy. John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathizer, slipped into Lincoln’s theater box and assassinated him.’’

After Lincoln death citizens of USA has built The Lincoln Memorial. The Lincoln Memorial is a building located in Washington D.C. with the monument build in honour of 16th President of United States Abraham Lincoln. The building is situated on a 107.43 acre area governed by the National Park service, and attracted 3,638,806 visitors in 2005. It has also been the site of numerous famous speeches such as Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech was said here in 1963.

The memorial is pictured on the reverse of the Lincoln one cent coin.

On the north and south walls there are inscribed The Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's second inaugural address. IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ENSHRINED FOREVER."- this is the inscription written by Royal Cortissoz directly behind the Lincoln statue. The statue is made of Georgia white marbles, weighing 158 tons, it was shipped in 28 separate pieces and it took nearly four years for the statue to be completed. In 2007, the Lincoln Memorial was ranked seventh in the List of America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects.

Some claims suggest that General Robert E. Lee’s face is carved onto the back of Lincoln’s head on the statue, the profile is hidden in his hair and looks back towards General’s old home “Arlington house”, now part of Arlington national cemetery. It is ironical as General Lee was a Confederate army warrior and thus an enemy to Lincoln led Union. Another urban legend argues that Lincoln’s hands are actually forming shapes, which represent his initials “A” and “L” in sign language. This theory is supported by the fact that French knew American Sign Language and he might be paying tribute to Lincoln signing the federal legislation, giving Gallaudet University for deaf the authority to grant college degrees.

Autor: Filip Lewandowski