3964085 Seizure and Death of the Murderer Wilkie Booth, c.1865 (colour print) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th U.S. President was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, at Ford\'s Theatre in Washington, D.C. by actor John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer who denounced Lincoln and opposed the abolition of slavery. Booth was tracked down at a farm in Northern Virginia and shot by Union soldier Boston Corbett when the barn in which he was hiding was set ablaze. Eight other conspirators were tried, convicted, and four hanged.).