Trivia 3-9-2020 Guilty By Ownership

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Who was the owner of Fords Theater and what happened to him after the assignation?

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1. You Were: John T. Ford
2. What happened after Lincoln's assassination (I hope this is what you are looking for in your answer): He went home to Baltimore and was arrested along with his 2 brothers and served 39 days in the Capital prison before he was exonerated as to having any involvement in the assignation.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11691932/john-thomson-ford
 
John Thompson Ford.
He was arrested at his Baltimore home 4 days after the assassination and was imprisoned along with his brothers James and Henry Clay Ford but was exonerated and freed after 39 days as no evidence could be found linking them to the murder. The Theatre was taken over by the government and Ford was paid $88,000 in compensation.
 
John Thompson Ford was the owner. He was a friend of J.W. Booth and was in Richmond on the date of the assassination. He was deemed suspicious in Lincoln's assassination and was arrested on April 18th along with two of his brothers. After 39 days, the Ford brothers were exonerated and set free.

The War Department takes control of the Ford theatre after Lincoln’s death, guts it and turns it into a three-story office building. The first two floors house the Office of Records and Pensions and the third, an Army Medical Museum. This memorandum of sale records the purchase of Ford's Theatre by the Government in 1866 for $88,000.

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John Thompson Ford (April 16, 1829 – March 14, 1894)
He was a good friend of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor. Ford drew further suspicion upon himself by being in Richmond, Virginia, at the time of the assassination on 14 April 1865.
An order was issued for Ford's arrest and on April 18, he was arrested at his Baltimore home. His brothers James and Harry Clay Ford were thrown into prison along with him. John Ford complained of the effect that his incarceration would have on his business and family, and he offered to help with the investigation, but Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton made no reply to his two letters. After 39 days, the brothers were finally fully exonerated and set free since there was no evidence of their complicity in the crime.[3]

The theater was seized by the government, and Ford was paid $88,000 for it by Congress.
 
1) The owner was John Thompson Ford

2) After the assassination Ford was arrested in his house in Baltimore together with his two brothers because it was suspected that they had been part of the conspiracy. After 39 days the brothers were set free again. In July 1865 Ford was threatened to the effect that he should keep the theater closed, because a re-openeing would "not be tolerated", and sell the property. He eventually gave in and sold it to the War Department for $88.000. The theater was then transformed to a 3-story office building.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_T._Ford&oldid=942606972
 
The owner of Ford's Theater was John T. Ford. After the assassination, Ford (along with his two brothers, James and Harry Clay) were arrested on April 18 and thrown into prison on suspicion of being involved with the assassination. After 39 days, the brothers were finally fully exonerated and set free since there was no evidence of their complicity in the crime. The theater, however, was seized by the government and Ford was paid $88,000 for it. Ford remained bitter at the government due to the treatment he received for many years.
 
The owner of the theater was John Thompson Ford
After the assassination of President Lincoln, Ford was arrested on April 18, 1865 at his home in Baltimore and he was thrown
into prison together with his brothers James and Harry Clay Ford. After 39 days he and his brothers were exonerated and set free
because of no evidence of their complicity in the crime. The theater was seized by the Government and Ford was paid $ 88000.--
for it by Congress.
 
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