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Exterior, Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was shot
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. is a popular historic site, operated by the National Park Service. It has been restored to its appearance April 14, 1865, the night that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
The room where Lincoln died
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Petersen rooming house was across the street from Ford’s Theater. Lincoln was carried there after he was shot. He lived through the night and died early the next morning.
The gun that killed Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth fired this small derringer into the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head, inflicting a mortal wound. Lincoln was attending a play at Ford's Theater. The gun is on exhibit at the Ford’s Theater Museum in Washington D.C., a National Park Service site.
Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth's boot
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)John Wilkes Booth was wearing this boot the night that he shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington D. C. After shooting Lincoln and stabbing Major Rathbone, Booth leapt from the Presidential Box. Catching his foot on bunting draped on the front of the Presidential Box, he fell to the stage, breaking his left foot. The boot is on exhibit at the Ford’s Theater Muse...