Lincoln Assassination Walking Tour w/ Anthony Pitch

This tour is again on our calendar by popular request and commemorates the April 15th Assassination of Lincoln. We will only cancel is the weather is dreadful, light rain will not stop the Harvard Club of Washington, DC founded in 1883.

Please meet the group in front of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square.

 

Cost-$20. 

 

Lincoln's Assassination

Walking Tour

Duration: 2 hours         *As Featured on C-SPAN TV*

Based on award-winning author Anthony S. Pitch's new book, "They Have Killed Papa Dead!"- The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance.

  • Starting Point: Beside equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, center of Lafayette Square facing front of White House. Closest Metro stop: McPherson Square on Orange/Blue lines or Farragut North on Red line.
  • A walk in the footsteps of America's most beloved President and most reviled assassin and co-conspirators. Stand in front of the White House and see where Lincoln delivered his last speech and where John Wilkes Booth vowed to kill him.
  • See the posh home of Major Henry Rathbone, Lincoln's theater guest, who struggled with the assassin moments after the murder. The walk passes by the site where another conspirator stabbed Secretary of State William Seward and continues to the location where Vice President Andrew Johnson was sworn in as Lincoln's successor.
  • Walk to Ford's Theatre, where Lincoln was mortally wounded on 14 April 1865. See the Petersen House across the road, where Lincoln died the following morning in a bed too small for his 6ft. 4in. body.
  • See where the conspirators boarded and plotted and where some were arrested in Mary Surratt's notorious brick boarding house... and much more! 

Anthony S. Pitch

Anthony S. Pitch is the author of a number of books including the recently published "They Have Killed Papa Dead!" - The Road to Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln’s Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance, described by Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the U.S. Commission on Lincoln’s Bicentennial, as “a perfect storm of a book.” Publisher’s Weekly hailed it as “a real page-turner…No reader will come away unmoved.” The book received the Arline Custer Memorial Prize for best book of 2009 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.

Another of his books, The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814, was a selection of the History Book Club, winner of the Arline Custer Memorial Prize for best book of 2001 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, and recipient of the Maryland Historical Society's annual book award. The White House announced that President Clinton took this book on vacation. Movie rights were optioned by National Geographic.

On the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination Pitch was invited to speak in Ford’s Theatre. He has appeared numerous times on C-Span TV, most recently in Washington Journal and in its documentary on the White House. He was interviewed on C-Span by Brian Lamb in the Library of Congress on the inaugural airing of Book TV. Two of Pitch's anecdotal history tours in Washington, D.C. have been filmed by C-Span TV: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Washington, D.C. Homes of the Presidents Before & After the White House. Pitch was also filmed by Tribune Broadcasting TV while narrating inside the White House. He was featured in First Invasion, The History Channel's two-hour documentary on the War of 1812. Pitch has also been featured on National Public Radio, Voice of America, Fox News, BBC, TV2Denmark, and TV New Zealand.

He is invited annually to give a speech at Fort McHenry on the anniversary of Francis Scott Key writing the national anthem, gave the Judith P. Austin Memorial Lecture in the Library of Congress, and has been guest speaker inside the U.S. Capitol, at the Smithsonian Institution, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

A former journalist in England, Africa and Israel, Pitch is a former Associated Press Broadcast Editor in Philadelphia, and a senior writer in the books division of U.S. News & World Report in Washington, D.C. He lives in Potomac, MD. 


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