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What play did Abraham Lincoln attend the night he was shot?

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Abraham Lincoln attended the play Our American Cousin the night he was shot.


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The play that Abraham Lincoln attended the night he was shot was Our American Cousin. It was a comedic play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. On April 14, 1865, Lincoln attended a performance of this play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. where he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.


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