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[Washington, D.C. Ford's Theater with guards posted at entrance and crepe draped from windows]

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1865 April.
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  1. Assassination
  2. Civil War
  3. Civil War, 1861 1865
  4. District Of Columbia
  5. History
  6. Lincoln, Abraham
  7. Theaters
  8. United States
  9. Washington (D.C.)
  10. Wet Collodion Negatives

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