    
Title: Reward Poster Description: A reward poster for three of those involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); the wanted men were American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865) who shot the President on April 14, 1865; 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 one of the assassination conspirators and later aided Booth in his escape after the shooting; and John Surratt (April 13, 1844-April 21, 1916), another conspirator; Booth was tracked down to a tobacco farm at Port Royal, Virginia, where he was shot and killed by Federal soldiers on April 26, 1865; Herold was later tried and hanged for his part in the President's assassination; Surratt fled the country after Lincoln's murder but was later extradited and the statute of limitations had expired on most of the charges against him so he was not brought to trial; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: assassinations, presidents of the U.S., U.S. presidents. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1500 x 2892 (4.34 MPixels) (1.93) Print Size: 12.7 x 24.5 cm; 5.0 x 9.6 inches File Size: 12.44 MB (13,044,052 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530675 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
