WASHINGTON—Between now
and April 14, the 81st anniversary
of the assassination of President
Lincoln, Sen. Milton R. Young
<R-ND> will try to get action on a
resolution which would lead to
the restoration of Ford’s theater.
The Senator could use a little
help from any of those patriots or
societies who believe in the pres
ervation of the relics of our his
tory.
Senator Young said, when ht
introduced his resolution: “A visit
to Washington is to many an
American family an experience of
a lifetime, long planned for and
undertaken with a singleness of
purpose and a sincerity of inter
est. To visit the Lincoln memorial,
the Capitol and the White House
are great experiences in the lives
of many of our people.
“To those who love Lincoln, a
visit to Ford’s Theater is another
experience long anticipated. But
in visiting Ford’s Theater, they
feel a distinct disappointment.
They do not see the theater at all.
“Although 81 years have elap
sed since that tragic event, it is
not too late to bring back to the
American people a vision of ex
actly what occurred. The home in
which he died, located at 516
Tenth St., is a Lincoln shrine and
is intact. It is very unfortunate
that the theater across the street
is not also intact."
To this, I can only add Amen. A
visit to Fold’s, where you pay
your dime at the door, is a very
distinct disappointment. It bears
little resemblance to a theater.
Glass cases are scattered around.
Black lines mark the columns
at the base of what was the box
where President Lincoln sat
watching Laura Keane’s perform
ance in “Our American Cousin,"
when John Wilkes Booth shot
him. Other black lines mark out
Booth’s footsteps as he fled across
the stage.
One can reconstruct the tragedy
better in his mind’s eye if he does
not go to the theater at all.
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Senator Young’s reso 1 u t i o n
would have the Department of In
terior estimate the cost of restor
ing the theater to an exact dupli
cation of what it was on that night
in 186b.
The government has at its fin
gertips all the material to make
that restoration possible.
Even if it didn’t, it would have
two excellent blueprints turned
out by those veteran and meticu
lous researchers, the movie mo
guls.
In 1924 the Rockett Brothers
produced their “Abraham Lin
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coin." So realistic was their re
production of the interior of
Ford’s theater that members of
the audience on that fatal night
who were still living in 1924 could
find nothing but praise for it.
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