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Booth's Birth
This was the day that the well known assassin of our 16th president Abe Lincoln was brought into this world. -
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John Wilkes Booth Timeline
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Military
In this year Booth joined the miltary school in baltimore but left soon after. -
John Booth acting
In 1855 john booth started his acting career in bltimore in his forst show he performed Shakespeare Richard III.
He was such a big hit he started an acting tour around the world. -
Carrer took off
When he joined a theater and when he performed everybody thought he was so good so he started getting pained 20,000 a year and became very populor. -
John Browns death
On this day john attended to murder of the abolishonist John Brown. he stayed close as he watched John Brown be hung. -
Stoppping acting
When a breathing problem hit John he had to stop acting. In this time he was able to plan an attem to kidnapp Abe Lincoln. -
Confederate
In this year booth had started to ave connections with the confederates often meeting with other agents. -
Kidnapp attempt
On this day Booth was going to attemp to kidnapp Abe in Washington D.C. When they failed to show up this angers Booth to the point were he wanted to kill Abe instead of Kidnapp. -
John at Lincolns seech
On this date while Lincoln was giving his sspeech if you look in the crowd you can see booth himself not too far from Licoln. -
The day Abe was shot
On April 14, 1865 Abe lincoln was at the Fords theater watching the play Our American Cousin. As Abe was wating the play Booth quietly snuck into the box that Abe was in and put the gun on his head. Booth knew the play very well and waited for the part were the loudest laughs happen. At that moment he shot booth and then jumped onto the stage from the box and broke his leg then fled. -
Booth knew were lincoln would be
on this date booth was all wrong and finaly found out that Lincoln would be attending the play at fords theater called My American Cousin. -
Booth's Death
This is the day that that john wilkes shot himself instead of letting them take him alive. -
Booths friends put to trial.
After Booths death they put his Pro-South friends to trial and later on put to death for helping Booth plan the assassination.
