John Wilkes Booth Research Paper

John Wilkes Booth was born May 10, 1838, he was born close to Bel Air, Maryland, United States. Junius Brutus Booth was Booths father and the father of his 10 children. Booth attended Milton Boarding School for Boys as a child. He later attended St.Timothy’s Hall. Booth was from a acting family and later would become an actor like his Father and brother, Edwin. People believe that Booths acting wasn’t as good as his fathers and brothers performances in some plays. This was because Booth struggled remembering his lines. His father died when Booth was at a fairly young age of 14. People were very fond of Booths appearance and thought that he should be an actor even from his early childhood. John showed that he agreed with slavery when he joined the Virginia Company, assisting the in the death of John Brown. He also wanted to control immigration into the United States. Booth was an agent for the Confederate army during the Civil War. The rest of Booth’s family supported the North. Johns acting career started off in 1855. The first performance that Booth was in was

Booth wrote a note saying that he could see the President and passed through the 1st guard. John Frederick Parker was supposed to guard the Presidential box, but he didn’t have a view of the play so he proceeded to head down closer to the stage. Booth carved a whole in the Presidential box door to gain access to it. Once John Wilkes Booth was inside, he then barricaded the door with a wooden stick to prevent anyone from getting inside. Booth approached Lincoln and waited until the plays funniest line to pull the trigger. Upon the pistol round killing Lincoln, Henry Rathbone attempted to stop Booth. Booth drew a knife and slashed Rathbone’s arm. Booth them jumped from the presidential box and broke his leg on impact because Rathbone managed to get a hand on him. He managed to escape crossing the stage and escaping on