Barbara Klein has more. The museum at Ford's Theatre was created to show Abraham Lincoln's life, and death,in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

By then,Lincoln was dead. On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, Southern sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The cramped, narrow, dimly lit establishment catered to the actors, stagehands, and playgoers who frequented Ford's Theatre.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Manhunt'

On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South.

WHITEHOUSE: Abraham Lincoln

Throughout his life, he was a tireless self-publicist, planting stories about himself in favourable newspapers, and even claiming on one famous occasion that he had been seated right next to Abe Lincoln in Ford's Theatre when the death bullet hit him.

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