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General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia were invited to accompany President Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln to the play at Ford's Theater, but Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Lincoln were not on good terms. Therefore, the Grants declined the invitation. Several others also declined an invitation before Major Henry R. Rathbone and Rathbone's fiancee, Clara Harris agreed to sit with the Presidential couple.
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CoachLincolns were planning a visit to Ford's Theatre to see the play Our American Cousin. Lincoln asked General Grant to be his guest that night, but Grant declined the president's invitation. Instead, Lincoln and his wife Mary would attend the performance of Our American Cousin accompanied by two other guests, Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancee, Miss Clara Harris.
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What booth was not welcomed at fords theatre?
John Wilkes Booth
Where was president Lincoln when he died?
Abraham Lincoln was the president when he died.
Who is dr Samuel Mudd?
He is one of the conspiritors in the Lincoln assasination and he set John Wilkes Booth's leg when he broke is jumping onto the stage of fords theatre after shooting Licoln and stabbing Major Rathbone
What theatre was President Lincoln shot at?
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, was shot in Fords Theater, Washington D.C. while watching the play Our American Cousin.
Why did the grants not go to fords theatre with the lincolns on the night Lincoln was shot?
The story goes that Mrs Grant had a very bad feeling come over her that afternoon about going to the theater so she feigned an illness so she and Her husband wouldn't have to attend.
