After successfully keeping the union intact, Abraham Lincoln attended “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s theatre while being accompanied by his wife and Union Major Henry Rathbone and his date Clara Harris. However, through a series of questionable events such as Lincoln’s own bodyguard leaving his post during the play, Lincoln would ultimately be murdered in cold blood by actor John Wilkes Booth from behind. Many conspiracy theories would develop in an attempt to explain many “odd” occurrences. However, the conspiracies that formed are to be discarded and not credible because they fail to provide any evidence supporting their theses.