A pair of front-row Balcony Tickets for Ford's Theatre on the night of Abraham Lincoln's assassination were auctioned for over a quarter-million dollars. The tickets, which provided a clear view of the box where Lincoln was shot, were expected to fetch less than $100,000. The only other known ticket stub from the same date is in the collection of Harvard University's Houghton Library. Lincoln was the first U.S. president to be assassinated, and his assassination was part of a larger conspiracy by John Wilkes Booth to revive the Confederate cause.

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