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Historical Washington with Rick Snider
3 tour bundle
About the Bundle

Stroll back in time through the American capital's historical and iconic neighborhoods with a sixth-generation Washingtonian.

Rick Snider hosts the popular YouTube channel, Rick Snider’s Washington. He is also a distant relative of both JFK and John Wilkes Booth. Rick will lead you from the White House to Ford’s Theatre to describe the day Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln. Hear personal stories from two centuries of political intrigue, including how Dan Sickles killed Frances Barton Key and then pleaded “temporary insanity” because his spouse was cheating on him, and walk to the capital’s first neighborhood. Stroll along the C&O Canal, past the Georgetown University campus and the homes of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady, Jackie Kennedy. En route, beware the Exorcist steps (as featured in the film by the same name) and visit the pub where the Kennedys became engaged. Snider shares the drama of neighborhoods where dangerous politics have been the norm since Lincoln's final day.

Follow the footsteps of John and Jackie Kennedy, taking in colonial architecture

Walking Tour

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40 mins
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1.4mi
(16)
$6.99
andrew jackson lafayette park washington d.c. st. john's church church of the presidents von steuben statue admiral stephen decatur decatur house ghost duel col. rathbone house rochembeau statue white house lafayette statue secretary of state william seward lincoln assassination first lady dolly madison murder philip barton key temporary insanity case
Cover the revolutionary intrigue that gave shape to America on a 15 minute tour

Walking Tour

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15 mins
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0.5mi
(15)
$4.99
lincoln booth actor conspiracy henry rathbone mary surratt john wilkes booth cemetary shot white house media teddy roosevelt president's palace speech dolly madison ghost seward horse william seward lewis powell secretary of state stab david herold murder tax revenue capitol willard traffic maryland canal architecture food restaurant war british bomb history star spangled banner francis scott key pennsylvania chris brown president calvin coolidge p.t. barnum mark twain duke of windsor hotel inauguration ford's theatre general grant civil war king eardwulf noble coat of arms cty emblem julia howe john mcdaniel letter john mccullough kidnap blackmail andrew johnson george axerodt pennsylvania avenue ford’s theatre woodrow wilson suffragettes brutalism flag car bomb assasination death rathbone sic semper tyranus john petersen fled escape arrested louis powell george azelrodt dr samuel mudd edman spangler michael o’laughlin samuel arnold
Trace Lincoln's final day, and the path Booth followed while stalking him

Walking Tour

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40 mins
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1.4mi
(57)
$6.99