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The diary is described in the museum collection at Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site as “a small book, which was actually an 1864 appointment book kept as a diary, found on the body of John Wilkes Booth on April 26, 1865. The datebook was printed and sold by a St. Louis stationer named James M. Crawford. The book measured 6 by 3 1/2 ...
This page contains the text of the diary kept by John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
Nov 19, 2011 · When John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 and was killed on a farm in Virginia two weeks later, officers found a red leather diary on his body that contained two diary entries, written in pencil, and photos of five women, one of which was his secret fiance Lucy Hale.
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.
Booth’s diary, written between April 17–22, 1865. For twelve days, John Wilkes Booth led the U.S. Army on a chase through Maryland and Virginia before finally being caught in a barn near Port Royal, Virginia.
May 30, 2012 · As a fugitive on the run, John Wilkes Booth recorded his version of the Lincoln assassination in a diary, but some of his secrets are lost to history.
Jul 27, 2018 · On the night of April 14, 1865, well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth slipped into the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and shot President Abraham Lincoln in the...
Mar 16, 2005 · The James O. Hall Papers contain research materials about the alleged missing pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, the alleged meetings between Samuel A. Mudd and Booth, the effort to exhume the body of Booth, and the book "Dark Union" by Ray A. Neff and Leonard Guttridge, among other topics.
Apr 15, 2024 · There are a number of conspiracies concerning what was supposedly contained in the missing pages of Booth’s diary, but the chief one — at least the one involving Secretary of War Edwin Stanton — suggests that he was part of a larger conspiracy behind the assassination of President Lincoln.
Apr 20, 2024 · In reality, John Surratt did make a speech in Maryland where he revealed his connection to a plot with Booth to kidnap Lincoln, which never came to pass. However, the speech was not boastful; Surratt maintained his innocence in the assassination plot, and called Weichmann a perjurer.
