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• Explore the National Park Service
• Biden jokes, warns against Trump at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza
• ★★★★★ - I really enjoyed this museum, had a great time here seeing some very beautiful and interesting cars!
• History Hit Reveals Winners of Historic Photographer of the Year 2023
• A visit to The Petersen House, where President Abraham Lincoln died after being shot
• Ford's Theatre Society and National Park Service Announce Reopening of Petersen House and Aftermath Exhibits
• Abraham Lincoln Funeral Train

Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863. The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at Lincoln's head. After being shot, the fatally wounded Lincoln was carried across the street to the nearby Petersen House, where he died the next morning. After the assassination, the boarding house and room where Lincoln had died were visited by tourists. Petersen remained in the house until his death in 1871 and the house transferred ownership multiple times until the 1930s when the public demanded it be restored to its 1865 appearance, although it was already being used as a privately owned museum.

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After exploring the reconstructed boarding house room, you can walk across to the Centre for Education and Leadership – which opened in 2012 – that highlights the aftermath of Lincoln’s death and his legacy. Lincoln was examined in the box at the theatre before he was carried across the street to the Petersen House where a boarder, Henry Safford, brought them inside. Surrounded by cabinet member and his wife, Lincoln died of his bullet wound to the head the next morning. Leale continued to serve in the army until 1866, after which he returned to his home town of New York City where he established a successful private practice and became involved in charitable medical care.

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Lincoln, the former rail-splitter, would not have minded so simple a coffin. After they took him home to the White House, sheets, pillows, towels and a coverlet lay on the boardinghouse bed, still wet with the president’s blood. Gunshots, though there was only one, can be heard from within the theater on the night of President Lincoln’s assassination.

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Born in Germany in 1819, Anna Kloman[n] Petersen immigrated to the United States alongside her husband when she was 23. She and William had 10 children together, five of whom survived to adulthood. She was away at the time of the assassination but returned the next morning to find that the President had died in her home. Born in Germany in 1816, William Petersen immigrated to the United States with his wife, Anna, on June 23, 1841. A tailor by trade, he earned a substantial fortune during the Civil War by making high-quality uniforms for officers. During the night and early morning, guards patrolled outside to prevent onlookers from coming inside the house.

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By the 1930s, public interest dictated that the building should be restored to its 1865-era appearance. A former private in the 13th Massachusetts, William T. Clark spent the night of April 14 out celebrating the end of the war and was not at home when President Lincoln was shot. Clark returned the next morning after Lincoln’s body was removed and climbed into his bloodied bed to sleep. He later wrote a letter to his sister describing the constant influx of tourists and souvenir hunters, who often stole mementos from his room.

One of the last surviving witnesses to Lincoln's death, Leale died in 1932 at the age of 90. Henry Reed Rathbone was a United States military officer and lawyer who was present at the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Although he recovered, Rathbone's mental state deteriorated afterwards, and in 1883, he murdered his wife, Clara, in a fit of madness, later being declared insane by doctors and living the rest of his life in a lunatic asylum. After being shot at Ford’s Theatre, Lincoln was carried across the street to Petersen House. Its three tiny, unassuming rooms create a moving personal portrait of the president's slow and tragic end.

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The Petersen House became a museum in the 1930s, and to this day, it attracts tens of thousands of visitors who want to wander the house, remembering the tragic events that had occurred there so many years ago. David Edgar Herold was an American pharmacist's assistant and accomplice of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. After the shooting, Herold accompanied Booth to the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who set Booth's injured leg.

The one-time boarding house has a faded red brick exterior and stands three stories tall, with a partial basement on a fourth floor. Each floor features three windows looking out upon 10th Street and Ford’s Theater. The building is enhanced by a beautifully crafted marble frame encasing the front door and a slightly curved black wrought iron banister that borders the multiple steps leading to the house. The Peterson House Museum offers its visitors a brief tour including the room where Lincoln died as well as viewing various historical artefacts relating to his assassination. Visitors to Peterson House can also tour Ford Theatre, the scene of Lincoln’s assassination.

Edman "Ned" Spangler, baptized Edmund Spangler, was an American carpenter and stagehand who was employed at Ford's Theatre at the time of President Abraham Lincoln's murder on April 14, 1865. He and seven others were charged in conspiring to assassinate Lincoln and three other high level government officials. Even so, he was found guilty of helping Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, escape and sentenced to six years of hard labor.

For visitors with disabilities, designated parking is thoughtfully provided on Level P1. Additionally, our commitment to sustainability shines through with three EV charging ports for electric vehicles, conveniently situated on the south side of Level P1. Between visits to her husband's bedside, Mary Lincoln waited in the following parlor with her son Robert and friends of the Lincoln family.