As obviated by the title, Abraham Lincoln is shown being shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth. After shooting Lincoln, he stabs Major Rathbone, Lincoln's guest at the theater, in the arm. It is later shown bleeding profusely. Lincoln's blood is also shown when Dr. Leale feels for the wound and at a scene near the end when someone changes Lincoln's pillow, which is covered in his blood. Also, at the beginning of the movie, John Wilkes Booth getting shot in the back of the neck by Boston Corbett is foreseen, and at the end of the movie, he is shot in the back of the neck by Corbett and dragged over to a porch, where blood is seen oozing out.