Mike Gracia

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

The final photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (above) – taken
at Warm Springs, Georgia on April 11, 1945 – the day before his death.

 
A lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair (above) was among the items auctioned
Saturday at a Historical Americana auction in Dallas, Texas.

(AP) – A lock of Lincoln’s hair sold for $25,000. It was taken by Surgeon General
Joseph K. Barnes shortly after the president was assassinated by John Wilkes
Booth.

The Donald P. Dow collection brought top bids totaling more than $800,000,
doubling expectations.

A 1861 letter written by Booth to a friend boasting about his career and value 
as an actor sold for $30,000.

A piece of linen from Lincoln’s death bed and stained with his blood (below) sold
for $6,000 while an 1864 letter signed by Lincoln authorizing a prisoner swap 
involving Gen. Robert E. Lee’s son from a Union POW camp sold for $27,500
and Booth’s military arrest warrant also went for $21,250.

Camille Bohannon

Ed Donahue

Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg) is 79

John Belmont

George Harrison (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001)