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Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
English: Interior of Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. The presidential box is towards the right. The theatre is still in operation and the stage is set up for a current stage play. The set onstage is for Liberty Smith and was designed by Court Watson. (i.e., it is not set up as it was when Lincoln was shot).
Folger Shakespeare Theater: Capitol Hill: 1932 250 Ford's Theater: Penn Quarter: 1863 665 GALA Hispanic Theatre: Columbia Heights: 1976 Hamilton Live: Downtown??? 354 Howard Theater: Shaw: 1910 1100 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Concert Hall Foggy Bottom: 1971 2465 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House
English: President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater April 14, 1865. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
The Star Saloon was located in the three-story structure immediately to the right of Ford's Theatre. Peter Taltavull (c. 1825 – April 8, 1881) played a minor role in the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Pages in category "Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C." The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .