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Description of Pictures: Join us on Saturday, July 10, and meet Lincoln historians Jean H. Baker, Gabor Boritt, Michael Burlingame, Catherine Clinton, Harold Holzer, Matthew Pinsker, James L. Swanson and Douglas L. Wilson. The scholars will be signing copies of their books in the Atlantic Lobby of Ford's Theatre from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. The event is free. No tickets or reservations are required.
Books featured include:
* Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
* Gabor Boritt, The Gettysburg Gospel
* Michael Burlingame, The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln
* Catherine Clinton, Mrs. Lincoln and Booth (as C.C. Colbert)
* Harold Holzer, The Lincoln Assassination: Crime & Punishment, Myth & Memory
* Matthew Pinsker, Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldier’s Home
* James L. Swanson, Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer
* Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln’s Sword
Several of these books will be on sale in the Ford's Theatre Gift Shop. You are also welcome to bring your own copy.
Partially Reviewed: Rough draft. I've gone through these pictures once, removing the worst ones, some duplication, etc. I usually take sequences of 4 or 5 pictures at a time and there are lots of near duplicates. I'll be doing a final review later which allows me compare the pictures that survived the first cut and make final determinations of what pictures to keep.
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Generally-Related Subject Description: This is the theatre where Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 by the racist whacko John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln's body was carried across the street to the William Petersen house where he died the next day. Just six days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln and his wife, Mary, went to see a performance of the play "Our American Cousin". Booth slipped into the back of President's box, shot him point-blank in the back of the head, and jumped onto the stage, running off yelling the Virginia state motto "Sic Semper Tyrannis" ("Thus always with tyrants"). Booth was hunted down and killed in Virginia on April 26 while the rest of his gang were tried, some of whom were assassinated for their role in a plot to kill Lincoln, the Vice President, and the Secretary of State. (Included in the executions was Mary Surratt, the first woman in the United States executed by the federal government.)
Ford's Theater was built in 1863 by John Ford. After the assassination, angry mobs wanted to burn the structure down but the federal government seized it, even throwing the owner into jail on suspicions that he might have been involved with Booth (no connection was found). The federal government purchased the theatre in 1866 and purchased the Petersen House in 1896. Originally, the theatre was gutted and turned into a federal office building. In 1893, one of the floors in the new office building collapsed, killing 22 people and injuring more than 60 others. The federal workers were moved and, for a time, the Army Medical Museum (currently at the Walter Reed Medical Center) moved in here. The building was transferred to the park service in 1930. The park service eventually decided to refurbish the inside as a working theatre which appears pretty much identically to how it appeared that fateful night in 1865. The $27 million renovation was unveiled in 1968. So nothing of the interior of the building dates from the time of Lincoln's assassination but it looks li ...More...
Generally-Related Subject Pages: Other pages here that have content somewhat related to this one:
2010_07_09D_RFA1D Ford's Theatre -- "Road from Appomattox" and "One Destiny" Society event
2010 photos: Equipment this year: I was using mostly the Fuji S100fs until the third one broke and I started sending them back for repairs. Then I used either the Fuji S200EHX or the Nikon D90.
Trips this year: I've got so many local commitments that I'm having trouble getting away. I drove out to Lexington, Kentucky to cover the Civil War Preservation Trust's annual conference in June. I flew out to California and Nevada for two weeks in July for the San Diego Comic-Con.
Ego strokes: Nothing major so far.
Photos taken this year: 260,000 through August -- down about 5 percent from last year's frenetic pace.