Carte de visite photo of John Wilkes Booth

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The man who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The actor was a Confederate sympathizer who lamented the t hen-recent abolition of slavery. Cornered in a Maryland barn, he maintained a standoff until the barn was set ablaze and a Union soldier shot him in the neck. The photo may have belonged to a theatre-attending "fan" of the handsome actor or to another Southern sympathizer. Show more