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The Ford’s Theatre Society and the National Park Service have planned activities to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was mortally wounded by ...

Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln slumped ...

April 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1817, the oldest, permanent U.S. public school for the deaf, Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (now the ...

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April 14 will mark the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theater. We are all familiar with what happened –– the first murder of a seated president in our nation’s history ...

The Ford's Theatre Center for Education and Leadership in Washington, D. C., is a new museum, located across from Ford's Theatre and next door to the house where Lincoln died, that will open in time ...