article_snippet.sent: Visitors to a metro-Detroit museum have a chance to get an up-close look at chair Abraham Lincoln was shot in at Washington D.C.'s Ford's Theatre in 1865 next week as The Henry Ford Museum puts The Henry Ford Museum center stage.
article_snippet.sent: The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot has been on display at Dearborn's Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, for 85 years.
article_snippet.sent: On April 15, The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot will be removed from The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot encasing to be displayed for the 150th anniversary of the assassination .
article_snippet.sent: The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot has a dark stain on the back, which many visitors believe to be blood from the shooting.
article_snippet.sent: But historians at Dearborn's Henry Ford Museum say that a dark stain on the back, which many visitors believe to be blood from the shooting is oil from other people's heads who sat in The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot before Abraham Lincoln .
article_snippet.sent: The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot has been part of the museum started by pioneering automaker Henry Ford - no relation to the theater-owning Ford family - since its founding 85 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: The government removed The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot from the theater and held The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot as evidence, and The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot ended up at the Smithsonian Institution.
article_snippet.sent: The wife of a theater co-owner petitioned to reclaim The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot, then sold The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot at auction to an agent working for Henry Ford.
article_snippet.sent: Around 1980, The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot was placed inside the museum, where The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot's now part of the 'With Liberty and Justice for All' exhibit. '
article_snippet.sent: Many visitors wonder whether dark spots on the back of The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot are Abraham Lincoln's blood.
article_snippet.sent: Not so, say museum workers: The stains are oil from other people's heads who sat in The chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot before that fateful night when Abraham Lincoln was shot by a pro-Confederacy actor, John Wilkes Booth.