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Who went to the play with Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln

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Answer:Major Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris (his fiancee) attended "Our American Cousin" with Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln on April 14th,1865 before he was assassinated by 26 year old actor John Wilkes Booth. Rathbone tried to stop Booth from escaping but was injured in the process. Rathbone pleaded to the audience "Stop that man!" and "Will no one stop that man?" while Clara Harris said "He has shot the president."

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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 am, in the Petersen House opposite the theater. He was the first U.S. president to be assassinated, with his funeral and burial marking an extended period of national mourning.

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