• Boston September 26, 2023 8:14 am

    Rare tickets to Ford's Theatre on night of Lincoln's assassination sell for $262,500

    A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — has sold at auction for $262,500. RR Auction, a Boston-based auction house, says the tickets sold Saturday. They are stamped with the date of that night’s play, “Our American Cousin,” and bear the imprint...

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