John Wilkes Booth
Actor/Assassin
Notable Achievement
Abraham Lincoln assassin
Biography
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland, he was a noted actor who was also a Confederate sympathizer; denouncing Lincoln, he lamented the then-recent abolition of slavery in the United States.
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Birthday Date
John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10