Question

What post–Civil War event is most associated with Ford’s Theatre?

Answer 1

Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C will forever mark the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On April 14, 1865, while attending a play called Our American Cousin, the event marks the first successful assassination of an United States president in history. The shooting was carried out by the well-known stage actor John Wilkes-Booth, as part of a larger conspiracy and attempt to revive the Confederate cause. Booth entered the Presidential Box and shot the president at point-blank range. The wound turned out to be fatal, when Abraham Lincoln diet the very next morning.