Pac-Man Fever's video: Unseen Twist of Fate in Lincolns Assassination - A Heroic Couples Tragic Encounter

Who did sit in the presidential box with Lincoln that night and was seriously stabbed during the attack It was known among friends that Julia Grant did not care for Mary Todd Lincoln so they declined the invitation The grants would instead leave later that evening to go visit family Several invitations were then sent out without reply until Henry Rathbone and his fiance Clara Harris a Washington socialite accepted their invitation Henry Rathbone was a Union Army officer who served in the Civil War and was engaged to Harris Unbeknownst to them they would both be present in the presidential box at Ford's Theatre when John Wilkes Booth would shoot President Lincoln and their lives would never be the same