ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S ASSASSIN: JOHN WILKES BOOTH (MAY 10, 1838 TO APRIL 26, 1865)

150 years ago on this date, April 26, 1865, Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.

John Wilkes Booth, assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. (1865)