![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/theatre-tickets-to-president-abraham-lincolns-assassination-expected-to-fetch-80000/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_Abraham-Lincoln.jpg&description=Historic front-row tickets which would have witnessed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are set to go up for auction and are expected to fetch £80,000 Tickets to the theatre performance where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated are set to go up for auction. The historic tickets, which are expected to fetch £80,000, are for front-row balcony seats at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, the night he was killed. The 16th president of the US was 56 years old when he was shot in the head by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin. RR Auction, a Boston-based auction site, describe the tickets as having a circular, April 14th-dated stamp which is an exact match to the stamps seen on tickets which are known to be authentic, such as the one seen in a collection of Harvard University's Houghton Library. For all the latest news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US "This pair of front row Ford's Theatre tickets, which were facing Lincoln's box, allowed the original theatre-goers to witness America's most tragic performance,' says Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction. "We know of only one other used April 14, 1865 ticket bearing a seat assignment that exists, making these two from the Forbes Collection extremely valuable," he adds. RR Auction also has a letter signed by Martin Luther King Jr. estimated to go for over $25,000 on its site, as well as a handwritten letter by Charles Dickens expected to be auctioned off for over $35,000. The rare and sought-after tickets for auction before belonged to The Forbes Collection of American Historical Documents and were sold at British auction house Christie's in October 2002. President Lincoln, whose legacy boasts the abolishment of slavery, was the first US president to be assassinated. His funeral and burial were marked by a three-week period of national mourning. On the fateful night, Booth, armed with a small, easily concealable handgu){kind=link}
Historic front-row tickets which would have witnessed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are set to go up for auction and are expected to fetch £80,000
Tickets to the theatre performance where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated are set to go up for auction.
The historic tickets, which are expected to fetch £80,000, are for front-row balcony seats at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, the night he was killed.
The 16th president of the US was 56 years old when he was shot in the head by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin.
RR Auction, a Boston-based auction site, describe the tickets as having a circular, April 14th-dated stamp which is an exact match to the stamps seen on tickets which are known to be authentic, such as the one seen in a collection of Harvard University’s Houghton Library.