    
Title: John Wilkes Booth Description: John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865), American stage actor who shot Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865), in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, shortly after the end of the American Civil War (1861-1865); Booth escaped but was tracked down to a tobacco farm at Port Royal, Virginia, where he was shot and killed by a Federal soldier on April 26, 1865; his last words were "Tell my mother I died for my country;" Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: American Civil War (1861-1865), assassinations, Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., Port Royal, Virginia, presidents of the U.S., tobacco farm, U.S. presidents, Washington, D.C. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2400 x 3062 (7.35 MPixels) (1.28) Print Size: 20.3 x 25.9 cm; 8.0 x 10.2 inches File Size: 21.05 MB (22,074,946 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530655 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
