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The night of President Lincoln’s assassination, there was another couple in the State Box at Ford’s Theatre: Henry Rathbone, a young Civil War veteran, and his fiancée, Clara. The death of the president would haunt Henry for years until another tragedy struck the couple in 1883. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices