Historic site
Ford's Theatre
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Tips from locals
The Theatre is still working. It is the same Theatre where President Lincoln was assassinated. Find a book in our library, about Lincoln and the manhunt that took place around the streets of Washington DC .
Visit the location where our 16th President of the United States was assassinated.
site of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination that took place on 14 April 1865; he theatre is wonderfully preserved and looks very much the way it did that fateful night including the President’s Box, where the assassination occurred, which is still decorated just as it was in 1865.
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Location
511 10th St NW
Washington, DC
Northwest Washington