"Rare Theater Tickets from Lincoln's Assassination Sold for $262K at Auction"
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Two front-row balcony tickets from the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre have been sold at auction for $262,500. The tickets, dated April 14, 1865, offered an unobstructed view of the president's murder by John Wilkes Booth. These rare tickets are from the performance of "Our American Cousin" and were part of a larger plot to decapitate the US government. Another artifact, a Lincoln-signed first edition of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, was also sold for nearly $594,000 at the auction.
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