...Abe") said, "I'm beat, but we made it." Get some sleep, I said. He said, "The wife wants to see 'Our American Cousin' tonight." I said, "Wait for the DVD." "Nah," he said. "It's not the same as seeing it in the theater...

...published. In 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. (Lincoln died the following morning.) In 1890, the First International...