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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.
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May 9, 2024 · John Wilkes Booth (born May 10, 1838, near Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.—died April 26, 1865, near Port Royal, Virginia) was a member of one of the United States’ most distinguished acting families of the 19th century and the assassin who killed U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln.
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- Booth Was A Popular Celebrity.
- Booth Harbored Confederate sympathies.
- What Did Booth Shout After Shooting Lincoln?
- An Epic Manhunt Followed The Assassination.
- Booth Found Refuge in A Swamp.
- Booth Met His End on A Tobacco Farm.
- Booth Was Buried in Secret.
By the 1860s, 26-year-old John Wilkes Booth had become one of most popular and recognizable stage actors of the day. He had toured the country, landing leading roles in plays from New Orleans to Chicago and Boston. Booth’s good looks and charm made him an early American heartthrob. “He is said to be the first actor to have his clothes torn by fans,...
Booth was a native of Maryland—a slave state that elected to stay in the Union—and he “hated abolitionists and thought they were trying to destroy the country he loved,” says Alford. At the start of the Civil War, Booth contemplated going to fight for the Confederacy, but his mother talked him out of it. That decision would wear on Booth’s psyche f...
After shooting Lincoln, Booth leapt from the president’s box and tumbled onto the stage. Eye witnesses in the theater that night heard him shout, “Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants!]” Booth broke his leg in the fall, but that didn’t stop him. He managed to escape the theater through a side exit. In the alley outside the theater, he mount...
The two rode through the night, arriving around four o’clock in the morning at the house of Dr. Samuel Mudd in southern Maryland. Mudd splinted Booth’s broken leg and allowed the pair to rest in his home. Mudd had been a conspirator in Booth’s earlier plot to kidnap Lincoln, but he didn’t know that Booth killed the president. The following day, Mud...
Booth and Herold continued south on horseback. For four days they hid out in Zekiah Swamp, Union soldiers close on their trail. Herold had spent time hunting in the area, according to Alford, so he knew where to hide. The pair concealed themselves in a dense pine thicket. At times, search parties came so close that Booth and Herold could hear them ...
Posing as wounded Confederate soldiers on their way home from the War, Booth and Herold took shelter in a tobacco barn on the Virginia farm of Richard Garrett. A tip led Union troops to the farm early on the morning of April 26. Booth and Herold were sleeping inside the barn. Herold surrendered, but Booth signaled his intent to fight back. The troo...
Booth died of his neck injury a few hours later on the Garrett family’s front porch. His body was swiftly taken to Washington, D.C., and secretly buried in the city’s Old Penitentiary, where Herold and three other Booth conspirators would later be hanged. Four years later, President Andrew Johnsonreturned Booth’s body to his family. Today, John Wil...
Oct 27, 2009 · Print Page. Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images. The Diary of Lincoln's Assassin. Despite his success as an actor on the national stage, John Wilkes Booth will forever be known as...
Images of John Wilkes Booth. Booth (left) acting with his two brothers in Julius Caesar. John Wilkes Booth. Biographic Sketch of John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth was the ninth of ten children born to the famous, eccentric, and hard-drinking actor, Junius Booth.
Browse 241 john wilkes booth photos photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. Illustration depicting John Wilkes Booth preparing to assassinate president Abraham Lincoln in the balcony of Ford's Theatre, Washington DC, April...
