Title: Virginia House of Richard Garrett Description: The Virginia house of Richard Garrett in which slept American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865) during Booth's escape after shooting Abraham Lincoln (25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865), on April 14, 1865; Garrett said he did not know Booth but gave him overnight shelter because Booth was crippled from his broken leg; with Booth on his escape and also sleeping overnight in the Garrett house was David Herold (June 16, 1842-July 7, 1865), a twenty-three-year-old feeble-minded former drug store clerk with the mental age of an eleven-year-old who was later tried and hanged for his part in the President's assassination; Booth was tracked down to the Garrett property near Port Royal, Virginia, where he was shot and killed by Federal soldiers on April 26, 1865; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: assassinations, presidents of the U.S., U.S. presidents. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2400 x 1694 (4.07 MPixels) (1.42) Print Size: 20.3 x 14.3 cm; 8.0 x 5.6 inches File Size: 11.66 MB (12,228,582 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530674 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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