This theatre during the Civil War was used for plays and public speeches, but that's not why it's so historical. It's historical because the 16th President of the United States was murdered there. That's right Abraham Lincoln murdered on April 14, 1865 by the one and only John Wilkes Booth. The date of Good Friday. In the movie Jonas had a vision that President Lincoln was going to die only to end up at Ford's Theater with a dead Lincoln.