Tuesday marks 150 years to the day since John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The next day, just six days after the end of the Civil War, the president succumbed to his injuries.
The red chair Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot is now housed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where thousands of tourists view it every year
"There's an intimacy to it that catapults you back in time," Doris Kearns Goodwin, renowned historian and Lincoln expert, told the Associated Press. "And hopefully, along with that, you're not just thinking of the death but the life that made it worthwhile." Read more...
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