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Ford's Theater was crowded, full of people. Lincoln had a private box, upstairs on the balcony level Lincoln, and Union Army Major Arthur Rathbone and his fiancee, Clara, and his wife Mary, were in attendence with him. Those four were present in the box when Booth crept in and shot Lincoln in the back of the head. Rathbone tried to struggle with Booth, but Booth slashed him with a knife, cutting his arm to the bone before leaping over the railing of the box to the stage below.

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