John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth ( A man with a mission) is known as killing one

of our U . S presidents, Abraham Lincoln. How did he do it when did he do

it and where did he do it at? Lincoln helping abolish slavery state by

state to try to stop the civil war. John Wilkes Booth as he was known as a

professional actor before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Today his

life is often forgotten and is also overlooked in schools around the world

John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838 in a log house. The

family home was on property near Bel Air, Maryland, twenty- five miles

south of the Mason- Dixon line. Elder brother Edwin supervised his younger

brother's upbringing. Later Edwin and older sister Asia would write about

their eccentric brother's behavior.

When finishing a year of school at a picnic he told his sister Asia

he went to a fortune teller a couple weeks before and the fortune teller

told him " Your life will be a short one and a victorious one at that. You

will accomplish most of everything you set your mind too. ( this might

sound a little bit weird, but she's a " fortune teller") This might have

set a tick in his psychotic mind that maybe he thought that he could do

anything he wanted to do. ( Dort, Aaron)

Francis Wilson, who wrote a biography of Booth in 1929, stated that

Booth opened his stage career in 1855 at the Charles Street Theatre in

Baltimore. He began performing on a regular basis two years later. Once

Booth started upon his acting career, he wanted the comparisons between

himself and his late father to Cease. It was a common practice of theater

companies to retain actors who would complement a touring, star figure.

Booth eventually became one the these star figures, with stock companies

for one and two week engagements. Often a different play was performed each

night, requiring Booth to stay up studying his new role until dawn, when he

would rise and make his way to the theater for rehearsal.

In October of 1864 Booth traveled to Montreal. He conducted a number of

meetings with men associated with the Confederacy. The record is unclear as

to what exactly transpired. By mid- November Booth checked into the

National Hotel in Washington. Booth carried with him a letter of

introduction from the Confederates, with whom he had conferred, addressed

to Dr. William Queen of Charles County, Mary...

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allowed the soldiers to see Booth moving in the wooden building with a

pistol and a rifle. It was at this point that Boston Corbett fired his own

pistol, claiming later that it was to prevent Booth from killing more

people. Several soldiers dragged Booth, still alive, from the burning

structure. Booth had been shot in the neck by Sgt. Boston Corbett. As he

was laid on a wooden porch, he was found to be paralyzed from the neck down

and whispered his final words, "tell my mother I did it for my country...

useless, useless [while looking at his hands being held up to his face]."[

In reaction to Lincoln's death a women from the south replied, "Hurrah! Old

Abe Lincoln is dead!" South Carolina girl, on hearing Lincoln's death,

April 15, 1865.

In the end two people where killed the assassinated and the

assassinater. Lincoln the assassinated killed good friday April 15, 1865.

The assassinater John Wilkes Booth completed his so called mission, with

the help of a few people. A conspires maybe, of those on the side of evil

who believe that we should have slavery today. The KKK who are racists

might look back on the day of the death of Lincoln. So do you think this