John Wilkes Booth
American stage actor and assassin (1838–1865)
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John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, fundamentally altering the course of the nation's Reconstruction period. His act remains one of the most consequential crimes in American history, making him a figure of enduring historical significance.
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- 1838
- Died
- 1864
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- 2
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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) 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.
Originally, Booth and his small group of conspirators had plotted to kidnap Lincoln to aid the Confederate cause. They later decided to murder him, as well as Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. Although the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee, had surrendered to the Union Army four days earlier, Booth believed that the American Civil War remained unresolved because the Army of Tennessee of General Joseph E. Johnston continued fighting.
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