With Malice Toward One

Abraham Lincoln once said, " A comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home." At 10:15 PM, April 14, 1865; the 16th President of the United States was murdered while viewing a comedy at Ford's Theater. Ironically, his assassin was John Wilkes Booth. A famous stage actor, best known for performing tragedies. John Wilkes Booth once said, "of all the Shakespearean characters, my favorite role is Brutus - the slayer of a tyrant." This is the true story of the first murder of an American President.