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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.
Mar 15, 2024 · On 14 April 1865, an actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth entered Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC, not to perform but to murder the president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. What drove Booth to pull the trigger? And how was he able to evade the law for 12 days? We explore the remarkable manhunt for Abraham Lincoln's assassin…
Mar 18, 2024 · As shown in Apple TV+’s Manhunter, John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, during a performance of Our American Cousin by playwright Tom Taylor at the Ford Theatre. Booth was 26 years old, just shy of his 27th birthday, at the time of the assassination.
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May 9, 2024 · John Wilkes Booth, member of one of the United States’ most distinguished acting families of the 19th century and the assassin who mortally wounded U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. After a manhunt Booth was killed during a standoff with Federal troops.
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- John Wilkes Booth was part of a family of celebrated actors, but he is remembered as the assassin who mortally wounded U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln i...
- John Wilkes Booth was part of one of the most distinguished acting families in the 19th century United States. His father, Junius Brutus Booth, an...
- John Wilkes Booth was an actor. After an unsuccessful Baltimore, Maryland, theatrical debut in 1856, he played minor roles in Philadelphia until 18...
- John Wilkes Booth was a vigorous supporter of the Southern cause. He was outspoken in his advocacy of slavery and his hatred of U.S. Pres. Abraham...
- John Wilkes Booth fled after shooting U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln. During the massive manhunt he was discovered by Federal troops while hiding in th...
Mar 19, 2024 · John Wilkes Booth shouts the phrase “Sic Semper Tyrannis” after shooting President Lincoln in Apple TV+’s Manhunt, raising questions about the phrase’s meaning and why he uses it. Manhunt is the most recent dramatization of the infamous assassination of President Lincoln.
Nov 30, 2017 · When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, John Wilkes Booth was not acting alone. He had a number of conspirators, four of whom were hanged for their crimes a few months later. In early 1864, a year before the Lincoln assassination, Booth had hatched a plot to kidnap Lincoln and hold him hostage.
Mar 14, 2024 · A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton’s hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination. In the hours following Abraham Lincoln’s...
