Friday April 14 1865 page 2 by ric Gustafson
Mary Lincoln knew which play was showing at Ford's Theatre. It was ' Our American Cousin' and it starred Laura Keene. Mary did not want to miss it. At breakfast, she told her husband that she wanted to see the performance that evening. Lincoln told a messenger to tell the theatre that he would attending that evening and to get the state box ready. He told them that General Grant and his wife would be joining them. He looked at his watch and knew that he was overdue at the War Department.
Lincoln enters Secretary of War Stanton's office and tells him that he is attending the play that evening.
At the same time that Lincoln's messenger is handing a note to James Ford, John Wilkes Booth has entered the theatre to pick up his mail.
research help: ' Lincoln's Last Days' by Bill O'Reilly and Dwight Zimmerman
Peace and God's blessings. Love Ric
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