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    John Wilkes Booth

    American stage actor and assassin

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  1. Oct 27, 2009 · John Wilkes Booth was an actor and Confederate sympathizer who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., in April 1865.

  2. Apr 8, 2015 · All was quiet, too, in the tobacco barn, where John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirator David Herold were sleeping. The barking dogs and the clanking, rumbling sound finally woke Booth....

  3. 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 head,...

  4. Nov 6, 2020 · John Wilkes Booth being dragged from the barn on Garrett's farm by Union cavalry sent to capture him after his assassination of President Lincoln. His Longest Death Scene.

  5. Mar 15, 2024 · Jonny Wilkes. Published: March 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM. 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.

  6. Mar 15, 2024 · Assassinations. The True Story of Manhunt and One Man’s Obsessive Quest to Capture John Wilkes Booth. The new Apple TV+ show dramatizes Secretary of War Edwin Stanton’s search for John Wilkes...

  7. Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished actor, southern sympathizer, and likely spy before shooting President Lincoln in April 1865. The ninth of 10...

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