President Abraham Lincoln died on this day, April 15, 1865, about nine hours after he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln and his wife had been watching a play at Ford's Theatre in D.C.

Two front-row balcony tickets to Ford's Theatre for April 14, 1865 — the night John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln — sold at auction for $262,500.

BOSTON — A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — sold at auction for $262,500 ...

A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre from the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there by John Wilkes Booth sold for $262,500.

BOSTON — A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — sold at auction for $262,500 ...

Ford's Theatre tickets from the night Lincoln was assassinated sell for $262,500. ... were at the same level as the private box that Lincoln, ... executive vice president at RR Auction.

A pair of balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated — has sold at auction for $262,500.

Two front-row balcony tickets from the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth inside Ford's Theatre have been sold at auction for a cool $262,500.

A pair of balcony tickets directly across from President Lincoln’s box in Ford’s Theatre the night he was assassinated were sold at auction for $262,500 recently.

President Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., while he was attending a performance of "Our American Cousin," according to the Library of Congress. He died the next day.

A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — has sold at auction for $262,500.

The handwritten seating assignments and the circular April 14th-dated stamp match those found on other known authentic tickets.