Two front-row balcony tickets from the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth inside Ford's Theatre have been sold at auction for a cool $262,500.

President Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., while he was attending a performance of "Our American Cousin," according to the Library of Congress.

A pair of balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated — has sold at auction for $262,500.

Dr. Charles A. Leale was the army surgeon who first tended to Abraham Lincoln the night he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. The 23-year-old doctor was in the Ford Theatre before Lincoln and ...

Ford's Theatre, seen in 1863. President Abraham Lincoln was shot here on April 14, 1865. Corbis hide caption ...

Rare theater tickets from the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated sold at auction for $262,500. The pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 were for ...

A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — has sold at auction for $262,500 ...

Two tickets believed to have been used at Ford’s Theatre in Washington the night of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination sold at auction Saturday for $262,500.

Two front-row balcony tickets to Ford's Theatre for April 14, 1865 — the night John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln — sold at auction for $262,500.

Tickets to the theater from the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated sold at auction for over $250K. The tickets are among a precious few of their kind from the tragic 1865 night.

Abraham Lincoln once wrote sparingly of this day: "I was born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky." Two hundred years later, Lincoln is remembered as a great president whose life was ...

Two tickets to the April 14, 1865, performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, at which John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln, sold at auction for $262,500 over the weekend.