3964104 Portrait of John Wilkes Booth, 1861-65 (albumen print) by American Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, at Ford\'s Theatre in Washington, D.C. by the actor John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer who denounced Lincoln and opposed the abolition of slavery. Booth was tracked down at a farm in Northern Virginia and shot by Union soldier Boston Corbett).