Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC, is famous as the site of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Originally a church, it was converted into a theater by John T. Ford in 1861. After the assassination, the US government paid Ford $100,000 to take control of the theater. Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth during a production […]
Gerald Ford was originally named Leslie Lynch King Jr. after his biological father, but his mother remarried and he took on the name Gerald R. Ford. He legally changed his name at 22 and found out at 13 that his biological father wasn’t Gerald Ford. He was never elected president or vice president and passed […]
Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was also a model before enlisting in the Navy. He played football for the University of Michigan and had two names growing up. He lived to be 93, but his presidency was the shortest of any non-deceased president. Gerald Ford is perhaps best known as the […]
