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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Washington's Ford Theatre now has the chair Mary Todd Lincoln was believed sitting in the night her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, was killed.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Director Sebastian Cordero has been hired for Harrison Ford's Civil War thriller, "Manhunt," it was reported Monday.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 13 (UPI) -- The bed where Abraham Lincoln died in 1865 is on loan to a new museum and library honoring the 16th U.S. president in Springfield, Ill.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A Beverly Hills historical document dealer paid a record sum Sunday for a letter written by Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

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