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Ford's Theatre lives in American infamy as the site where Abraham Lincoln, the 16th United States president, was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth in April 1865. The theatre is now a national historical site managed by the National Park Service.
However, an official social media account belonging to Ford's Theatre incited mockery over the weekend after seemingly questioning why Lincoln has been put "on a pedestal" in American history.
The Twitter account for Ford's Theatre solicited suggestions from social media users on Saturday "a more useful, more complex, or more realistic" to remember Lincoln.
"Do you ever feel we, as a nation, put Abraham Lincoln 'on a pedestal'?" the account said. "What do you think might be a more useful, more complex, or more realistic way to think about or memorialize the 16th president?"
Do you ever feel we, as a nation, put Abraham Lincoln \u201con a pedestal\u201d? \n\nWhat do you think might be a more useful, more complex, or more realistic way to think about or memorialize the 16th president?\n\nImage: Library of Congresspic.twitter.com/6mQJGTUz7J— Ford's Theatre NPS (@Ford's Theatre NPS) 1631988900
Lincoln is consistently remembered as one of America's best presidents. Not only did he lead the U.S. through the American Civil War — with the Union defeating the confederacy — but he was responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared freedom for all slaves in confederate states. Lincoln's legacy remembers him as someone who fought for freedom for enslaved Americans.
Lincoln, in fact, has been named the greatest president in American history by C-SPAN for decades.
Considering Lincoln's status in American history, Ford's Theatre was raked over the coals for the tweet.