 Contains several references to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.  Jeffrey Beaumont is warned not to go to Lincoln Street, where Deep  River Apartments are located. Frank Booths name evokes John Wilkes  Booth, Lincolns assassin. Don Valens is shot through the head much  the same way Lincoln was. References to Lincolns assassination  appear in _Mulholland Dr. (2001)_ (qv), as well 