 ...freed the slaves, shot in the head at Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C., while seeing a play with his wife. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? And it was a Democrat, John Wilkes Booth, who was bitter and angry, and he was an actor, you know, Sixth Emperor Tyrannus and all that stuff. Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president ever, shot and killed by an assassin who was a Democrat.