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Ford’s Theater Layout (Harper’s Magazine, 1865)

Attached is a schematic drawing depicting the theater box occupied by the President and Mrs. Lincoln the night of his assassination.


Featured in the image is the dark hallway leading to the President’s Box, the footlights and the stage by which Booth was able to make good his escape.


Click here to read about a dream that President Lincoln had, a dream that anticipated his violent death.

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