The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

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A Confederate sympathizer shot the president at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April fourteenth, eighteen sixty-five.

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Tom McCabe, the president of Theatre Calgary, a local theater company, says he comes for the business, too.

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Bryan Forbes, from Wentworth in Surrey, received a CBE for services to the arts as president of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.

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But Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, cancelled plans to attend after Chechen rebels took hundreds of hostages at a theatre in Moscow.

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