President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes booth at ford's theatre
Fact: Booth was a actor and Lincoln enjoyed watching him perform in numerous plays
"Lincoln was an admirer of the man who assassinated him. I know that, for he said to me one day that there was a young actor over in Ford's Theater whom he desired to meet, but that the actor had on one pretext or another avoided any invitations to visit the White House. That actor was John Wilkes Booth."