irony at the theater?

Whitman shows a bit of irony in the fact that Lincoln was assassinated at a theater, by mentioning it was a place Lincoln was very fond of. I think that the theater meant a lot to the president because that’s the one place he could get away from it all. He treated the presidency as purely a job and realized he was burdened with heavy responsibilities, rather than just gloat in the position. Thus I think he took to the theater as an escape from his busy duties in the real world, especially when life in the theater was better than life in his civil war torn nation. It is ironic that in that moment of escape and relaxation he would be shot.

I also find it ironic that the guards who where always around him even on his commutes to the Whitehouse where not there to stop or initially catch Booth (I haven’t read up on how Booth was captured).

I also find it ironic that everyone in the theater ran and scrambled for either their lives or in some other sort of panic, yet no one seemed to do anything rash about the situation, they didn’t help the president and where even in the way of the guards coming to his aid and protection.