Americana: Ford's Theatre National Historic Site

This website from the National Park Service, displaying government archive material about the theater in Washington, D.C., where Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, and about the president's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, includes historical data and photos of the theater, a biography of Booth and a map of his escape route, images of the chair Lincoln was sitting in and the gun used to shoot him, and much more.
<http://www.nps.gov/archive/foth/index2.htm>