PHOTO GALLERY

William M. Smith's historic photograph of Lincoln's second inaugural. (Private Collection)

"The most beautiful eyes in the world." John Wilkes Booth at the height of his fame.

The great crime.  A fanciful print published shortly after the assassination.

The booth at Ford’s Theater.

Wanted poster.

John Wilkes Booth’s Derringer (National Park Service)

“I’m mad, I’m mad!” Lewis Powell. Secretary of State Seward’s assassin.

Secretary of State William H. Seward and daughter Fanny. (Collections of the Seward House, Auburn, NY)

Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton. (Private Collection)

Morning.&n bsp; April 15, 1865. Lincoln’s deathbed shortly after he was taken home to the White ho u se.

“The Assassin’s Vision.” Lincoln’s ghost haunts the fleeing Booth.

A photograph issued to one of the manhunters, defaced with sentiments of the moment. (Private Collection)

Luther Baker, Lafayette Baker, and Everton Conger pose as Manhunters for Harper’s Weekly.

“I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.” Garrett’s Farm.  April 26, 1865.

Journalist George Alfred Thompson’s thrilling account of the manhunt.

Boston Corbett, Booth’s killer.

The man of the hour, Booth's killer, Boston Corbett. (Private Collection)

Boston Corbett, Booth’s killer.

Blood money - Corbett's share of the $100,000 reward. (National Archives)

The Aftermath of Powell's knife.  Secretary of State William Seward.

History in wax and effigies of assignation.

Dion Haco's novelized life of "the assassinator."

Large-format broadside placed on walls and in windows following the assassination.

Scenes from "The Assassin's Carnival," National Police Gazette, April 22, 1865.

Ford's Theatre Playbill for the night of Lincoln's assassination.

One-page newspaper broadside extra printed in haste-and with many inaccuracies-on the morning of April 15, 1865.

Large-format broadside placed on walls and in windows following the assassination.