1065633 Portrait of John Wilkes Booth, c.1860 (b/w photo) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: John Wilkes Booth (1838 ??1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford\'s Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor. He was also a Confederate sympathizer, vehement in his denunciation of Lincoln, and strongly opposed the abolition of slavery in the United States.); Prismatic Pictures ; American, out of copyright.