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Did Lincoln not want to attend the theater that night?
07-26-2012, 08:28 AM
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Did Lincoln not want to attend the theater that night?
I've heard a couple versions of the account. One says Lincoln didn't want to go to Ford's Theater that night (April 14th), but Mary Lincoln insisted. In this scenario, Mary becomes the scapegoat for the murder (like she had enough to deal with already!). In another version, Mary didn't really want to go but Lincoln felt that they must go as it had been published in the paper that they would be attending. Lincoln didn't want to let the public down. Thus, in this scenario, Lincoln was killed giving his complete "all" to the public-even though he wanted to stay home that evening. I'm sure there are other variations of what happened.

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Did Lincoln not want to attend the theater that night? - LincolnMan - 07-26-2012 08:28 AM

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