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History on Foot at Ford's Theatre — The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy

Ford's Theatre (Washington, DC)
Title: History on Foot at Ford's Theatre (website)
Venue: Ford's Theatre (Washington, DC)
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00
Rating: 4.0 stars

Rated 4.0 by 3 members who went.

History on Foot is a walking monologue that brings DC history to life. Beginning at Ford's Theatre, this tour discusses the Lincoln assassination conspiracy and the events of April 14 and 15, 1865. You'll revisit and reexamine the sites and clues that separate fact from fiction in a firsthand look at the investigation.

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4 Star Rating
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May 10 2008

Cory Hughes

Cory Hughes

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This tour was so much fun!!! It had the excitement of a Murder Mystery event, but with the added true historical facts of the events of Lincoln's Assasination. I will be back in DC area in late July and plan on taking the tour again.
The tour is only in it's 2nd week and it seemed like they'd been doing it for years it was so well setup. I hope they keep it going forever.

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On the night of April 14, 1865, Detective John McDevitt was on duty at the Washington Metropolitan Police headquarters at the corner of 10th and E Streets. Just before 10:30pm, frantic witnesses rushed in with news: President Lincoln had been shot at Ford’s Theatre. Before long, other rumors swept the streets: the Secretary of State, the Vice-President, General Grant were all dead...Southern prisoners had been freed...Confederate cavalry were converging on the city. This tour will look at the Lincoln assassination conspiracy and separate fact from fiction.

History on Foot lasts approximately 90 minutes and makes at least eight stops throughout the story. The distance walked is approximately 1.4 miles, an easy walk to follow one of the most exciting nights in American history.

About Ford's Theatre:

Ford's Theatre is a live, working theatre located in downtown Washington, DC. As a living tribute to President Abraham Lincoln's love of the performing arts, Ford's Theatre produces musicals and plays that embody family values, underscore multiculturalism, and illuminate the eclectic character of American life.

On April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth will attending a show at Ford's Theatre. This national tragedy caused the theatre to be closed to performances, and over the next 90 years the governement used it as an office building, warehouse and museum. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a Congressional act to restore the Theatre. Reconstruction began ten years later, and a beautifully restored Ford's Theatre reopened in 1968 with the play John Brown's Body.

For nearly three decades Frankie Hewitt was the driving force behind the dynamic new chapter in Ford's history. Lobbying first to have the structure renovated as a working theatre as well as a museum, then building new audiences, enriching the fabric of Washington's downtown theatre scene and developing new American theatre works. Ford's Theatre strives to continue this legacy both as a tribute to Frankie Hewitt as well as for the preservation of this important theatrical landmark.

One desperate act assigned Ford's a permanent place in the history of our nation. Ford's Theatre Society has gone beyond that tragedy to reclaim the Theatre as a national treasure and to transform it into a celebration of America's cultural heritage.