Ford's Theatre Museum - Lincoln Assassinabilia - Washington, DC
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Ford's Theater- the site of President Lincoln's assassination is now a Museum.
Waymark Code: WMQFRC
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 02/22/2016
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The Roadside America website (
visit link) informs us:
"Ford's Theatre Museum - Lincoln Assassinabilia
Field review by the editors.
Washington, DC
Exhibits in this "imagineered" museum include the murder weapon ("One shot was all that Booth had."), Abe Lincoln's bloodstained clothing of death -- but not his stovepipe hat, which is elsewhere -- and the door to the Lincolns' private theater booth-of-death. There's also one of John Wilkes Booth's boots (cut off his post-assassination injured leg) and the brass knuckles carried by Lincoln's ineffective bodyguard. A special sealed capsule displays Lincoln's fragile overcoat (or an exact replica if it's out for repair), and there are lots of video screens to show featurettes produced by The History Channel.
The entire museum was redesigned in 2009 by the same Disney-trained group that built the Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois, so it's now a parallel universe of state-of-the-art wax dummies, mood lighting, fake building facades, video-projected faces, etc....
Address:
511 10th St. NW, Washington, DC
Directions:
In the downtown museum district. On the east side of 10th St. NW, between E and F Sts. Next to Ford's Theatre, which is where the assassination took place. Tickets required in advance.
Hours:
Daily 9-4 (Call to verify)
Phone:
202-347-4833"