Diners at restaurant where Lincoln assassination was planned think US is as divided now as the Civil War

In 1865, five members of the conspirators planned to assassinate Abraham Lincoln at this DC Chinese restaurant - (Michelle Del Rey)

Geri Roth, a substitute teacher from North Carolina, was unaware she’d been chowing down on egg rolls in the same place conspirators planned Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865.

“I feel like I should have known that,” said Roth, adding she makes it a point to visit Wok and Roll, an Asian eatery with an adjoining karaoke bar in the heart of Washington DC’s Chinatown, every time she’s in the city visiting her daughter.