DC Three!!!

June 18, 2015

Today's adventures:  The National Crime Museum, Ford's Theater and  the Petersen House

The South has the most violent crimes per 1000 individuals
than anywhere else in the US

Be very happy that you didn't
live during the middle ages

Whatever you do...don't kiss on the Sabbath!
Even if you are a sailor who has been
gone for three years and you want
to greet your wife!

The oldest Bank Robber!!!!

President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14th, 1865.  He died approximately nine hours after being shot in the early morning of April 15th in a house across the street from the theater.  

The Lincoln's were attending a performance of "Our American Cousin".  They invited General and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant.  The Grant's were unable to attend and at the last minute the Lincoln's invited Clara Harris and her fiancee Major Henry Reed Rathbone.  Rathbone suffered a knife wound during a struggle with John Wilkes Booth but survived.  

Tragedy continued to follow Harris and Rathbone.  They married but in 1883 Rathbone killed his wife Clara and then turned a knife on himself.  He survived was declared insane and died in 1911 in an asylum in Germany.  

Mary Todd Lincoln lived a tragic life. Her husband was assassinated while sitting next to her and three of her four sons died before her.  In her final years, Mary Todd Lincoln was estranged from her only remaining son, Robert.  She died at her sister's home in 1882.