# What was Lincoln going to see the night he was assassinated?

Published: 17 June 2012
Category: Ramblings

I have absolutely no idea why this question even came to me but I felt compelled to find an answer, it wasn't hard.  But interesting nonetheless.

On April 14th 1865 [Abraham Lincoln](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln) was assassinated in the Ford's Theatre, New York.  The play he was seeing was *[Our American Cousin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_American_Cousin)* by [Tom Taylor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor).

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