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Ford’s Theatre tickets for night of Lincoln’s murder sell for $262,500

Two tickets used the night of the assassination brought twice the expected amount at auction

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September 24, 2023 at 4:03 p.m. EDT
Two tickets for second-level front row seats 41 and 42 in section D of the Dress Circle at Ford's Theatre on the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. (RR Auction)
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Two tickets believed to have been used at Ford’s Theatre in Washington the night of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination sold at auction Saturday for $262,500.

The price was more than twice the amount expected at the afternoon sale at RR Auction in Boston.

The tickets were for prime front-row seats on the second level — 41 and 42 D in the theater’s dress circle the night of April 14, 1865. The show featured British actress Laura Keene in the comedy “Our American Cousin.”