For example, on the night Lincoln was shot, he and his wife had planned to watch “Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp”(O’Reilly and Dugard, 151). In fact, the President would have rather gone to see Aladdin at Grover’s Theatre. His wife, however, was rent between watching Aladdin, and watching Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatreㅡthe same theatre where John Wilkes Booth performed. Mrs. Lincoln eventually chooses Our American Cousin, and President Lincoln would rather have done what his wife wished (O'Reilly and Dugard 154). Since Booth performed in Ford’s Theatre, he knew the building like the back of his hand. He also knew the exact time when the audience would laugh the loudest during Our American Cousin. “The instant that the punch line hits home and the Ford’s audience explodes, Booth will kill Lincoln.” (O’Reilly and Dugard 181). The circumstances of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln were excessively coincidental. The plot for his death was more similar to a puzzle than almost any other