john wilkes booth
John W. Booth thought he was a tyrant. After he shot Lincoln, he jumped on the stage and yelled "sic semper tyrannis" (thus always to tyrants). Did you know that there is theory that Booth was never actually killed? Booth was from the South, and did not agree with Lincoln's views on slavery, and that all men are created equal.
Junius Brutus Booth, the father of John Wilkes Booth, died from drinking impure river water on a steamboat ride from New Orleans to Cincinnati in 1852. With no physician on board, he died after suffering five days of fever.
Stage actor John Wilkes Booth is credited as to being the one who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln. This happened at Ford Theater in 1865.
john Wilkes Booth is believed to be the assassin.... He killed Abe because he had heard that Lincoln planned to free the slaves and it angered him.
John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth was 26 years old when he was shot and killed on April 26, 1865.
He was hung for assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
they did not know he was going to be killed
He used a pistol to kill Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
After he shot president Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth seeked refuge in a barn when federal agents arrived and set it on fire. After Booth refused to surrender and come out of the barn, one of the agents shot booth despite given instructions by his officer to take him out alive.
American actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on Good Friday, 14 April 1865. Lincoln died the next morning.
John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln in the Ford Theatre.
Many photographs were taken at Lincoln's second inaugural address. One in particular shows that John Wilkes Booth was in the crowd there.
John wilks booth
John Wilkes Booth was an actor.