Your personal choice of "most tragic" character in the assassination story

[BettyO]

These were made to sell at Gardner's Gallery in DC - yes, folk could buy them and apparently did - they were like baseball cards and really cheap back then.... and yes the Conspirators CDVs were popular in the latter half of the 1860s and 1870s....

I don't know what Powell thought of being photographed. I do know that he at one time shook his head vigorously in order to defeat Gardner; for which General H. H. Wells struck him on the arm. Eckert intervened.

Powell was not the blood thirsty psychopath that he seems to be. This boy was more frightened than angry - defiant, yes but that soon appears to disappear in his other photographs.