BUS TOUR Booth’s Escape Route
September 4, 2009 8 AM to 8 PM
October 4, 2009 8 AM to 8 PM
Residents Associates Program
Tickets Resident Members $123, General Admission $169
Call: 202 633-3030, or click here
Location: See ticket
Spend a day following of one of the most famous escape routes in America. After assassinating President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth scurried through city and forest. Start at Ford’s Theatre, the site of the assassination and explore the assassin’s hasty scramble through the backwoods of Maryland and Virginia. Learn about the plotting of the murder, the execution and the conspiracy behind it. Finish the tour in Virginia where Booth was found shot and dead two days after the assassination.

 

ASK AN EXPERT President Lincoln’s Air Force … and President Davis’s, Too
October 8, 2009 12:30 PM to 12:45 PM
National Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
Free, $15 parking fee per car
Call: 202 633-3030, or click here
Location: Meet at the SR-71 Blackbird
On July 18, 1861 T.S.C. Lowe created the Union Army Balloon Corps. During a demonstration on the National Mall, Lowe espoused the potential of aerial technology during wartime. Join the museum’s curator Tom Crouch to discuss how both Lincoln and Davis made use of the period’s aerial assets during the Civil War.

In commemoration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth in 1809, the Smithsonian Institution presents a yearlong celebration offering visitors a unique immersion experience and an opportunity to explore the life and times of the nation’s most mythic and transformative president. Meet world-renowned Lincoln scholars. Relive scenes from Lincoln’s second inaugural ball. Walk in his footsteps, tour city sites from the Lincoln era.

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