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Lincoln originally invited Ulysses S. Grant and his wife to the Ford Theater. Grant accepted, but later backed out because their wives' hated each other. If Grant had gone, his security detail would likely have prevented Lincoln's assassination.
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Ulysses S. Grant was also planned to be assassinated along with Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, but did not attend the play at Ford Theater because their wives were not on good terms.
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The officer in charge of guarding Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater left his post to go drinking at the same bar where John Wilkes Booth was building up the courage to shoot the President.
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Abraham Lincoln’s sole guard at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 was an unreliable cop who walked to the saloon next door to get drunk during the fateful play. Ironically, John Wilkes Booth was at the same saloon working up courage before walking next door to assassinate the unguarded President.
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Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia were invited to Ford's theater by Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. They declined to attend because neither one of them could stand Mary Lincoln.
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When John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theater, he chose the moment of the play where he knew the audience would be laughing the hardest to conceal the sound of the gunshot
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Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater, and Kennedy was shot in a Ford Lincoln.
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Francis Ford Coppola originally wanted to continously show Apocalypse Now for 10 years in only one custom-built theater in the geographical center of the US, and only then release the movie for other showings done on his terms.
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The Michigan Theatre in Detroit, the theater they built a parking garage inside, is on the site Henry Ford built his first car.
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John Wilkes Boothe played the part of Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on Broadway in the months prior to shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford Theater. Funds raised by the Caesar performance were used to pay for a statue in Central Park, where it still stands today.
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Francis Ford Coppola originally wanted Apocalypse Now to be played, on repeat for ten years, in a specially-built theater in the geographical center of the United States. Any theater owner who wanted to show the film in their theater would have to talk to Coppola directly.
