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AMERICANA FOLK ART PAINTING DEVIL AND JOHN WILKES BOOTH

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Sold Date: 03/06/2011
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Fraternal, Political, Organizations

up for sale is a FOLK ART PAINTING of "THE DEVIL AND BOOTH", JOHN WILKES BOOTH....unsigned......a great Americana item; Good Original Condition, watercolor & ink painting hand done; mounted in an antique frame; measurements: image is 34" by 26"; outer frame size is 37 1/4" by 29 1/4"; buyer will pay $42.99 UPS Shipping, with insurance & tracking; I am selling this artwork with a 7 day guarantee on full customer satisfaction with the sale. Any questions I will answer to best of my ability.

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

From left to right: Major Henry Rathbone , Clara Harris , Mary Todd Lincoln , Abraham Lincoln , and John Wilkes Booth . The print, by Currier & Ives , erroneously suggests that Rathbone saw Booth before Booth shot Lincoln.

Location Washington, D.C. Date April 14, 1865 Target Abraham Lincoln Weapon(s) Philadelphia Deringer pistol Death(s) 1 (Lincoln) Injured Henry Rathbone Perpetrator(s) John Wilkes Booth

The assassination of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln took place on April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to a close, just five days after the surrender of the commanding general of the Confederate Army, Robert E. Lee , and his battered Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant . Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, [1 ] though an unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson in 1835. [2 ]

The assassination was planned and carried out by well-known actor John Wilkes Booth as part of a larger conspiracy intended to rally the remaining Confederate troops to continue fighting. Booth plotted with Lewis Powell and George Atzerodt to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward and Vice President Andrew Johnson as well.

Lincoln was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln . He died the next morning. The rest of the plot failed. Powell only managed to wound Seward, while Atzerodt, Johnson's would-be assassin, lost his nerve and fled.