Lincoln Assassinated

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April 14, 1865 - PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS MURDEROUSLY ASSAULTED AND ASSASSINATED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH AT FORD'S THEATER. WASHINGTON. DC. as he watches the comedy, Our American Cousin.

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The Night Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated

What happened on that fateful Good Friday evening

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Here is the signal John Wilkes Booth used to shit Lincoln and the last word Lincoln ever heard...

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The Last Words Lincoln Heard

In January of 1890, an article appeared in the Century Magazine by John Nicolay and John Hay, the personal secretaries of President Abraham Lincoln. For the past four years, the pair had been relea…

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“No one, not even the comedian on the stage, could ever remember the last words of the piece that were uttered that night – the last Abraham Lincoln heard upon earth. The whole performance remains in the memory of those who heard it a vague phantasmagoria, the actors the thinnest of specters.”

This claim – that no one could recall the words spoken on stage before the shot was fired – came as a surprise to several people who had witnessed the assassination or had heard the story from those who had been there. While the memory of the last words may have waned in Hay and Nicolay, there were some alive in 1890 who remembered well the last lines of Our American Cousin that were uttered before the building erupted into chaos. Not the least of those who remembered the event vividly was the described “comedian on the stage” himself, actor Harry Hawk.

 

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It seem Ford Theater shut down some after the tragic event for 103 years...

Why Ford’s Doesn’t Produce Our American Cousin — Ford's Theatre

<p>Why doesn’t Ford’s Theatre stage <em>Our American Cousin</em>, the play during which John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln? Read on to learn five reasons why.</p>

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Through a series of twists and turns, no theatrical performance of any kind would grace the Ford’s Theatre stage again for 103 years. April 22, 1865, also became the last time that Our American Cousin was—and will ever be—performed at Ford’s Theatre.

 

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Our American Cousin - Wikipedia

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Our American Cousin is a three-act play by English playwright Tom Taylor. It is a farce featuring awkward, boorish American Asa Trenchard, who is introduced to his aristocratic English relatives when he goes to England to claim the family estate. The play premiered with great success at Laura Keene's Theatre in New York City in 1858, with Laura Keene in the cast, the title character played by Joseph Jefferson, and Edward Askew Sothern playing Lord Dundreary. The play's long-running London production in 1861 was also successful.

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The last known performance of "Our American Cousin" (the play often referred to as "American Cousin") was on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre, the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while watching the play; although the play continued to be performed in other theaters after this date, its popularity significantly declined following Lincoln's death.