After breakfast they departed the hotel for a short walk to Eisenhower metro station, from where the metrorail train takes you right into the heart of the city, traveling both over & under ground.
First stop this morning was Ford's Theatre, the site of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. The group enjoyed an excellent talk in the theatre itself by a National Parks ranger, then crossed the street for a walk-through visit to the Peterson House - a boarding house in Lincoln's time, it was here that the President was taken, unconscious, & where he died. The house also contains an excellent museum telling the story of the manhunt & funeral ceremonies that followed Lincoln's death.
There was time for souvenir shopping & lunch, before the afternoon was spent visiting the Smithsonian Museums, the National Archives (home to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, & the Bill of Rights), the Navy Memorial, & the Holocaust Museum.
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