1865: Haunting portraits of the Lincoln assassination conspirators

Lewis Powell, also known as Lewis Payne, who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward. Image: Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress On April 14, 1865, at the climax of a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., actor John Wilkes Booth entered Abraham Lincoln’s private balcony and shot the president in […]