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Hace 5 días · On the evening of April 14, 1865, 26-year-old John Wilkes Booth—a rabid advocate of slavery with ties to the South and the flamboyant son of one of the most distinguished theatrical families of the 19th century— shot Lincoln as he sat in Ford’s Theatre in Washington.
Hace 2 días · On April 14, 1865, just five days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, he was attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Mary, when he was fatally shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
Hace 4 días · In American history, John Wilkes (1725–97) has the dubious distinction of having his name given to Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He is today primarily known by historians of the eighteenth century, but in the Age of the American Revolution, he may have been one of the most famous men in the British Empire.
Hace 3 días · Lucy Lambert Hale of Dover, NH, legend says, was secretly engaged to actor John Wilkes Booth when he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. Both had been staying at the National Hotel in Washington, DC where they had met months earlier.
Hace 4 días · John Wilkes Booth’s motive for assassinating Abraham Lincoln stems from the president’s role in the American Civil War. The war, which raged from April 12, 1861, to May 9, 1865, was fought ...
Hace 4 días · John Wilkes Booth was an actor from a line of actors and parliamentarians if you look back far enough. A home lacking parents for long stretches fostered a cruel loneliness in the young Booth. Ditching school and shooting neighborhood cats to near extinction became his subjects.
Hace 1 día · The second is his great-grandfather William P. Schellenger of Clementon, NJ who, as a second class fireman aboard the USS Montauk on April 25, 1865, guarded the body of one John Wilkes Booth before and after his autopsy. Mr. Schellenger stood eight feet away from the carpenter’s bench where Booth lay on the monitor.
