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Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone:
Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone were recently engaged when they were invited by the Lincolns to join them at Ford's Theatre.
Immediately following the shooting, Rathbone jumped out of his seat and grappled with Booth. Booth stabbed Rathbone in the arm and leapt from the theatre box.
Rathbone never forgave himself for letting Booth get away. He and Clara married and moved to Germany. On December 23, 1883, Rathbone recreated his own version of that fateful night 18 years earlier; he shot and killed Clara and stabbed himself. When the police arrived, he claimed there were people living behind the pictures on the wall. He died in an asylum 28 years later. |