{"id":2050539,"date":"2023-09-30T07:23:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T11:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fords-theatre-tickets-from-night-lincoln-was-shot-sell-for-over-250000-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2023-09-30T07:26:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T11:26:36","slug":"fords-theatre-tickets-from-night-lincoln-was-shot-sell-for-over-250000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fords-theatre-tickets-from-night-lincoln-was-shot-sell-for-over-250000-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford&#8217;s Theatre tickets from the night Lincoln was assassinated were auctioned for over $250,000."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffords-theatre-tickets-from-night-lincoln-was-shot-sell-for-over-250000-at-auction%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2050539&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Front-row\u2063 Tickets\u2062 from Ford&#8217;s Theatre Performance Where Abraham Lincoln Was Shot\u2064 Sell for Over $250,000<\/h2>\n<p>Front-row tickets from the historic \u2064Ford&#8217;s Theatre performance, where \u2063former President\u2063 Abraham Lincoln was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-dismiss-a-literal-political-assassination-attempt-because-it-doesnt-fit-their-narrative\/\" title=\"Media Dismiss A Literal Political Assassination Attempt Because It Doesn\u2019t Fit Their Narrative\">tragically shot<\/a>, have been sold at auction for an astonishing \u200dprice \u2062of over $250,000. This remarkable sale took \u2062place\u2063 during \u200bBoston-based \u200bRR \u2063Auction&#8217;s Remarkable Rarities event, \u200csurpassing \u2063the initial \u200bestimate\u200c of \u2062$100,000\u200d and surprising many.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the lucky winner remains a\u200d mystery, as \u200cthey have \u2063chosen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-audio-think-tanks-star-lawsuit-witness-admits-to-tommy-robinson-that-they-bribed-him-for-testimony-against-us-congressional-staffer\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Think Tank\u2019s Star Lawsuit Witness Admits to Tommy Robinson That They Bribed Him For Testimony Against US Congressional Staffer\">remain anonymous<\/a>, as reported.<\/p>\n<p>On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of the acclaimed \u2062play &#8220;Our American Cousin,&#8221; \u2062featuring the renowned stage actor and\u2062 Southern sympathizer, \u200cJohn Wilkes Booth.\u200b The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fords-theatre-tickets-from-night-lincoln-was-shot-sell-for-over-250000-at-auction\/\" title=\"Ford's Theatre tickets from the night Lincoln was assassinated were auctioned for over 0,000.\">president tragically \u200cpassed<\/a> away the following day in a house located just across the street.<\/p>\n<p>The sold\u2063 tickets bear the\u2063 stamp of &#8220;Ford&#8217;s Theatre, APR 14, 1865, This Night\u2062 Only,&#8221; according\u200b to a spokesperson from PR Auction. Additionally, they are clipped, indicating that \u200bthe\u200b original ticket holders had presented\u200d them for admission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2064 firmly \u200dbelieve that there is no other 19th-century\u200c event as significant to\u2063 ticket collectors\u2064 as\u200d the performance of\u200c &#8216;Our American Cousin&#8217; on April 14, 1865,&#8221; expressed\u2062 RR Auction Executive Vice President \u2062Bobby Livingston.\u200d He further emphasized that those who possessed these tickets on that fateful night would have had a direct\u2064 view of Lincoln&#8217;s\u200c box.<\/p>\n<p>Livingston passionately stated, &#8220;This pair of \u2064front-row\u2063 Ford&#8217;s \u2062Theatre tickets, \u2062which were\u200d facing Lincoln&#8217;s box, allowed the original theatergoers to witness America&#8217;s \u200bmost tragic performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the report,\u2063 the\u200b only\u200c other known surviving tickets from this historic performance are currently held by\u2063 Harvard \u200bUniversity&#8217;s Houghton Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front-row tickets to the Ford&#8217;s Theatre performance, where Lincoln was shot, were auctioned for over $250,000. Initially estimated at $100,000, the tickets exceeded expectations, selling for $262,500 in RR Auction&#8217;s Remarkable Rarities sale. This surprising outcome highlights the impact of &#8220;Bidenflation&#8221; on the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2050540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2050540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}