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Ford's Theatre History. Ford's Theatre, April 1865, taken just days after the assassination. Note the mourning crepe draped from the windows and the soldiers posted as guards out front. (Library of Congress) On the night of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, while watching the play Our ...
The play was a huge hit in New York in 1858 and then in London in 1861. It also created a merchandising boom related to the character of Lord Dundreary. The play made the careers of Laura Keene, Joseph Jefferson and E.A. Southern, each of whom had their own traveling productions of the play by 1865. Abraham Lincoln was watching Laura Keene’s ...
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Ford’s Theatre, theater, museum, and learning center in Washington, D.C., that is the site of and dedicated to the history of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Ford’s Theatre, the adjacent Star Saloon, and Peterson House, across the street, were designated the Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site in 1970.
- Tamsin Pickeral
The house was a boarding house owned by William and Anna Petersen, a private family. One of the boarders, Henry Safford, who lived upstairs, heard the commotion, came down, opened the front door and on the front porch with a lighted candle in hand said, “Bring him in here! Bring him in here!”. Safford was aware that a bedroom at the back of ...
The night of April 14th, 1865, attendees of Ford’s Theatre expected to see a regular performance of Our American Cousin. Little did they know that what they would see that night would change the course of American history. Playbills printed on April 14, 1865 announced President Abraham Lincoln’s attendance at a performance of Our American ...
Ford's activities the day before the assassination attempt. On September 4, 1975, the day before Fromme's assassination attempt in Sacramento, Ford was in Washington D.C. In the morning, he met with National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger – a meeting that still was under national security restriction as of 2012.
Ford’s Theatre’s collection of artifacts brings you close and personal with one of the consequential murders in history. Ford’s Theatre invites you to explore the items below and their significance. Examine them closely and imagine what it would feel like to hold material evidence of the last days of President Lincoln and conspirators who ...
