President Lincoln’s Assassination
Today in 1865, just 5 days after the end of the Civil War, around 8:00 in the evening, President Abraham Lincoln his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln along with Major and Mrs. Henry Rathbone, visited Ford’s Theatre for a lively performance of the comedy, Our American Cousin.
Just after 10:00, during the third act, the well-known actor and Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, entered the theatre and walked to the rear of the Presidential box. With only one body guard, who had wandered off, he easily peered through a small hole in door of the box that he had drilled the …read more
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