The six­teenth US Pres­i­dent Abra­ham Lin­coln went down in his­to­ry as a man who sac­ri­ficed him­self in the name of the reuni­fi­ca­tion of the coun­try and the lib­er­a­tion of the black pop­u­la­tion from slav­ery. Just a few days after the end of the Civ­il War, on April 14, 1865, Lin­coln was shot in the head with a pock­et pis­tol by South­ern­er John Booth at the Ford The­atre. All this hap­pened dur­ing the third act of Tom Tay­lor’s play “My Amer­i­can Cousin”: Lin­coln and his wife were in the pres­i­den­tial box on the bal­cony, where Booth, the famous actor at that time, entered. Hav­ing fired a shot, he man­aged to escape, but after a ten-day stay on the run, he was over­tak­en and killed dur­ing deten­tion. By the way, the Ford The­ater oper­ates today both as a venue for musi­cals and per­for­mances unknown to the gen­er­al pub­lic, and as a muse­um in mem­o­ry of Lin­coln, where you can learn about his life and death. The­ater employ­ees can show the very place where the mur­der took place.