Summary Of Our American Cousin

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President Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of United States. He was elected president just after the U.S. Civil War between the north and the south. The war took more than 600,000 lives. President Lincoln worked hard to rebuild the nation and to give americans another life after the war. But he was killed during his mandate. The April 14, 1865 he took a few time with his wife Mary to go at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC to see a play. the play was “Our American Cousin” presented by actress Laura Keene. The presidential couple were late at the play. When they came the orchestra played “Hail to the Thief” the official song of U.S. presidents. they sat in the Presidential Box. After Act 3 has begun, John Wilkes Booth who was also an actor
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