Ford's Theatre ticket from the night of Lincoln's assassination sells for $262,500

Ford's Theatre ticket from the night of Lincoln's assassination sells for $262,500

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BOSTON — 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 — sold at auction for $262,500, according to a Boston-based auction house. The tickets are stamped with the date, “Ford’s Theatre, APR 14,…

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