4 14 1865
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth enters the presidential box at Fords Theatre and shoots Lincoln during a performance of Our American Cousin
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Fords Theatre in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
John Wilkes Booth enters the presidential box at Fords Theatre and shoots Lincoln during a performance of Our American Cousin
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