The 160th anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln is on April 14, and both the Ford’s Theatre Society and the ...

I explained to her that tonight was the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination. That I served on the advisory council of the Ford’s Theatre Society. That I had written a book about what had ...

A member of a famous acting family, and a fierce partisan of the Confederacy, Booth was the subject of a 12-day manhunt through Maryland and Virginia after he shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.

(NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY) By a historical twist of fate, Weaver would also be one of Lincoln’s last defenders. On April 14, 1865, Weaver was in Ford’s Theatre in Washington for the play “Our ...

Five different peoples’ journals chronicled what the room looked like where Lincoln was dying ... Unfortunately Ford’s Theatre itself was being completely renovated when we were shooting.

The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, shortly after the Civil War ended. It details his humble beginnings in ...

The pistol that shot Abraham Lincoln is preserved in Ford’s Theater, now a Washington museum ... Federal Government permanent custody of the assassination rifle and the .38-cal.

Florida is no stranger to strange history, but this one connects all the way back to the Lincoln assassination.

Thousands of classified files on the 1963 assassination ... Ford Museum in Dearborn. The limousine was refurbished and used by presidents into the 1970s. After its assembly at Ford’s Lincoln ...

When first published, in hard cover in 2015, our reviewer observed that, in her remarkably revealing and detailed account of the events surrounding Lincoln’s assassination ... Booth came to being ...