More than 750,000 people visit Ford's Theatre annually to ponder Abraham Lincoln's assassination — Booth's single shot and histrionic leap to the stage, the mortally wounded president's death across the street at a boarding house, where Lincoln was carried after the shooting.
New dimensions to that story will be added at Ford's with the opening of the $25 million Center for Education and Leadership this month. Situated in a dramatically refurbished 10-story office building directly across the street from the fabled theater and next door to the house where he died, the center will feature expanded museum and education spaces.
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