Title: Members of a Detective Service Description: Members of a detective service who took part in the arrests at a tobacco farm at Port Tobacco, Virginia, on April 26, 1865 of two of the conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); they were, left to right, Lt. Luther B. Baker, Col. L. C. Baker, and Col. E. J. Conger; arrested were American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865), who had shot the president, and David Herold (June 16, 1842-July 7, 1865), a feeble-minded former drug store clerk with the mental age of an eleven-year-old who aided Booth in his escape after the shooting; Booth was shot and killed attempting to escape the federal soldiers at the farm, while Herold was captured and later tried and hanged; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: assassinations, farms, presidents of the U.S., tobacco farms, U.S. presidents. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1800 x 1395 (2.51 MPixels) (1.29) Print Size: 15.2 x 11.8 cm; 6.0 x 4.7 inches File Size: 7.21 MB (7,562,180 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530680 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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