One of the places we were able to visit and "touch" history on our trip to Virginia and D.C. was Ford's Theater, forever known as the theater President Lincoln was shot and killed. If you ever have a chance to visit, I highly recommend it. The museum downstairs is filled with a lot of interesting things from that night and it is very cool to sit in the actual theater, hear a recounting of the night and look into the Presidents theater box knowing how that one night, that one violent act, changed history forever.
The boys standing next to a statue of John Wilkes Booth.
The gun that Booth used to shoot President Lincoln.
A bronze life-sized statue of President Lincoln. Did you know he was 6' 4" tall?
The Presidential theater box. President Lincoln did not have plans to attend the theater until that day. Which means that although Booth and the other conspirators had come up with several plans beforehand to kidnap the President and other prominent members of the government, the plans for the assassination were created that day.
Sitting in Ford Theater.
A view of the Presidents Box and the stage. Booth jumped out of the box and onto the stage before running backstage and out to his horse.
This is the Peterson House. It was a boarding house directly across from the theater where Lincoln died. He lived for 9 hours after being shot in the head.
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