John Wilkes Booth
American
Famous American actor, infamous for assassinating president Abraham Lincoln. - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father Junius Brutus Booth
- Brother: Edwin Booth
Famous American actor, infamous for assassinating president Abraham Lincoln. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1838/05/10 | John Wilkes Booth is born in a four-room log house, the ninth of ten children. | Born | |||||
| 1852/12/00 | John Wilkes Booth begins living at Tudor Hall with his mother, brother Joseph, and two sisters. JW Booth stayed through much of 1856. | Home | Tudor Hall | Bel Air | |||
| 1863/11/09 | President Lincoln watches Booth play Raphael in Charles Selby's "The Marble Heart" at Ford's Theater. Lincoln requested to meet the actor after the play but Booth refused. | Actor | Ford's Theatre National Historic Site | Washington, DC | |||
| 1864/07/00 | John W Booth and several well-known Confederate sympathizers meet at The Parker House to plan the kidnapping of President Lincoln. | Assassin | Parker House | Boston | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1864/11/00 | John W Booth is introduced to Dr Mudd. | Conspiracy leader, assassin | St Mary's Church | Bryantown | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1864/12/00 | Dr Mudd introduces John Booth to Thomas Harbin at the Bryantown Tavern | Conspiracy leader, assassin | Bryantown Historic District | Bryantown | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1864/12/23 | Conspirators plan to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln | Conspiracy leader, assassin | Mary E Surratt Boarding House | Washington, DC | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1865/03/18 | In what will be the last appearance of his career, John Wilkes Booth plays Duke Pescara in "The Apostate". | Actor | Ford's Theatre National Historic Site | Washington, DC | |||
| 1865/04/05 | John Wilkes Booth registers at the Parker House. | Guest | Parker House | Boston | |||
| 1865/04/06 | John W Booth practices firing a pistol in various difficult ways such as between his legs, over his shoulder and under his arms at Edward's Shooting range off School Street near the Parker House in Boston. | Assassin | Parker House | Boston | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1865/04/11 | Lincoln speaks to a crowd from the window over the main door of the White House, John Wilkes Booth swears that this will be Lincoln's last speech. | Conspiracy leader, assassin | President Lincoln's Last Public Address | White House North Portico | The White House | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | |
| 1865/04/14 | John Booth shoots President Lincoln in the back of the head with a .44-caliber Derringer pistol. The 5.87-inch weapon is on display at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site. | Conspiracy leader, assassin | Ford's Theatre National Historic Site | Washington, DC | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1865/04/14 | John Booth shoots President Lincoln in the back of the head with a .44-caliber Derringer pistol. The 5.87-inch weapon is on display at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site. | Conspiracy leader, assassin | Ford's Theatre National Historic Site | Washington, DC | End of the American Civil War | ||
| 1865/04/14 | John Wilkes Booth leaps from the president's box and crashes onto the stage. Booth fractures his leg in the fall, but is able to escape out a rear entrance to a waiting horse. | Conspiracy leader, assassin | Ford's Theatre National Historic Site | Washington, DC | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1865/04/15 | Dr Samuel Mudd treats John Wilkes Booth's injured leg, providing food, lodging and two horses to Booth and David Herold. | Conspiracy leader, assassin | Dr Samuel A Mudd House | Waldorf | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1865/04/16 | Oswell Swann leads John W Booth and David Herold across Zekiah Swamp to Rich Hill, the home of confederate sympathizer, Col Samuel Cox. | Conspiracy leader, assassin | Rich Hill | Bel Alton | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1865/04/17 | Samuel Cox places Booth and Herold in the care of the Confederate underground and arranges to hide them in a pine thicket a mile west of his house for several days, where they receive food and newspapers. Marker at jct of Bel Alton Newtown Rd and Wills Rd | Conspiracy leader, assassin | Bel Alton | Maryland | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1865/04/24 | John Wilkes Booth dies on the porch of the Garrett farmhouse (lost). A marker is on A P Hill Blvd, 3.1 miles SW of Port Royal. A bank draft signed by Montreal banker and future mayor Henry Starnes is found in Booth's pocket. | Conspiracy leader, assassin | Port Royal | Virginia | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
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