On Apr. 14, 1865, five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, a 26 year old member of the “first family of the American stage” murdered Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
The epic manhunt for John Wilkes Booth ended 12 days later on a Virginia farm. A Union soldier under strict orders to take the most wanted man in American history alive fired the fatal shot that fore…
