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- The Abraham Lincoln Chair Being Uncrated after Shipment to Greenfield Village, January 1930 - President Abraham Lincoln was sitting in this rocking chair during a production of <EM>Our American Cousin</EM> at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., when he was assassinated on April 14, 1865. Henry Ford purchased the chair in 1929 for the Museum, where it remains one of the most revered objects associated with the "man who saved the Union."
- January 06, 1930
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The Abraham Lincoln Chair Being Uncrated after Shipment to Greenfield Village, January 1930
President Abraham Lincoln was sitting in this rocking chair during a production of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., when he was assassinated on April 14, 1865. Henry Ford purchased the chair in 1929 for the Museum, where it remains one of the most revered objects associated with the "man who saved the Union."