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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Dec 29, 1996 · This page contains the text of the diary kept by John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
Apr 15, 2023 · John Wilkes Booth and David Herold hid in a pine thicket near Bel Alton, Maryland, waiting for an opportunity to cross the Potomac River into Virginia. Confederate agent Thomas Jones supplied the men with food and newspapers. Booth may have written an entry in his diary describing his thoughts on the assassination.
— Excerpts from John Wilkes Booth’s diary, written in hiding during April 1865. Not until Thursday evening, April 20 was Thomas Jones, under cover of darkness, and with much stealth and trepidation, able to get the fugitives down to the Potomac and shove them off in his small, flat-bottomed rowboat.
