Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln ...

The President had been felled by an assassin’s bullet during the previous evening’s performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. It was Good Friday.

On April 14, 1865, Weaver was in Ford’s Theatre in Washington for the play “Our American Cousin” when John Wilkes Booth shot the president.

Loudonville, NY — The audience burst into laughter at the same moment John Wilkes Booth burst into the presidential box at Ford’s Theater, and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.

Typically with this play, “the set is: Build Ford’s Theatre inside somewhere and have a piece of the box as part of the set,” Bakula says. So at Ford’s, “it makes so much sense.

Rathbone stood trial in Germany, where he was found guilty and incarcerated at Hanover’s Hildesheim Asylum. He died there on August 14, 1911, 46 years after that traumatic night at Ford’s Theatre.

A rare pair of Ford’s Theatre tickets—for seats across from the president’s box—have sold for $262,500 Ellen Wexler - Assistant Editor, Humanities September 28, 2023 ...

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.

These tickets and the Harvard ticket all bear the faint print of a stamp reading: "Ford's Theatre, APR 14, 1865, This Night Only." It's not known who the tickets belonged to, though an envelope ...

The two tickets match the marks of what's thought to be the only other used ticket from the night John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865.

Ford's Theatre tickets from the night Lincoln was assassinated sell for $262,500 Laurel Wamsley September 26, 2023 / 10:51 am ...