The Most Wanted Man in America (2:43 min) Curator: Clark Evans
Week of: February 08, 2010 The suspicion that John Wilkes Booth
had acted as part of a conspiracy of Southern sympathizers in
the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln reignited
Northern rancor and helped doom Lincoln's plans for a relatively
generous peace. This was one of the earliest "Wanted" posters to
bear a fugitive's photograph. Hastily assembled and issued
during the few days that Booth was at large, this poster
incorporated carte-de-visite photographs of the conspirators,
including one of Booth that had been produced as a publicity
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