Ashley Wilkes

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination was an event in history that everyone is aware of; however, some don’t understand the true impact it had on history and the people around it. Discussing the main points might be hard for one to do because some don’t truly understand the motive behind it and how it affected people around at the time. A lot of factors were involved during this assassination to make it a crisis everyone would be sure to remember. Opinions about this will be considered throughout the…

My book Lincoln’s Last Days by Bill O’Reilly and Dwight Jon Zimmerman is about, as the name suggests, the last days of Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln was our nation’s president during the Civil War. He was a great leader who helped bring the Union to victory alongside General Ulysses S. Grant and General George Gordon Meade. However, this book does not only highlight Lincoln’s life during the Civil War, but it also tells what happened during the end of the war and how he was assassinated…

name him “Little Abe”. Starting at an early age, Swanson received Lincoln related birthday presents. As a kid, Swanson read a lot about presidents of the past, but Abraham Lincoln was the first president that he read about. Swanson's interest in John Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincoln started on his tenth birthday. On his tenth birthday, he received a…

Herbert 1 I live in the old house of John Wilkes Booth. My family often receives mail because people want photos but it is just one of the downs of living in an old criminal’s house. I wanted to tell everyone the time I found a door in the house that took me to the day John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Over the course of my adventure I found research and photos on my experience and thoughts. John Wilkes Booth is a notorious criminal that killed Abraham Lincoln and hurt the Union.…

In the discussion of the Latter-Day Saints; Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint Movement. Founded by Joseph Smith in upstate New York in the 1820s. By 1830, the Book Of Mormon was published. Years down the road on June 27th, 1844 marked an important day for the Mormonism religion. The day Smith was attacked and killed by a mob, he was currently the mayor of a small town called Nauvoo in Illinois and was preparing to run for the President of the United States. Sources report…

Who was John Wilkes Booth and what was he most famous for? John W. Booth was born near Bel Air in Maryland, United States on May 10, 1838 and died April 26, 1865 at a young age of 26. He was born into a family of ten children with being the ninth child. Junius Brutus Booth, John’s father; along with his brother Edwin Booth, were both actors. John strived to be the greatest actor he could possibly be showing precise theoretical potential, but having envy to his brother Edwin for acclaiming actor…

When John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln on the 14th of April of 1865. He was sighted as a murderer in the eyes of the U.S. but in his mind and of some others he was a patriot and acted in a time of war to kill the commander in chief of the other side of the war. The definition of a patriot is “a person that loves and strongly supports or fights for his or her country.” Booth stated (“I have no desire to out-live my country” A patriot will die for their country and fights for it) stating that…

A man sneaks into a theater hours before its opening and quietly carves a hole in the wall. He returns hours later as a well known public figure to observe the art. What happens next will forever alter the course of American history. How John Wilkes Booth pulled off the most compelling and famous assassinations in history is successfully written about in “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. In “Killing Lincoln,” the truth about the President’s assassination come to light. The…

Booth, John W. "From John Wilkes Booth's Diary." “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me”: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth, 1997. These excerpts from his journal entries start off with him talking about what he had just done: assassinate Abraham Lincoln. This first journal describes what was going on in his head during that time that could have convinced him that killing Lincoln was the right thing to do. As a result, for the good of the people, protecting them from such a “tyrant,” he kills the…

Learning that Lincoln was to attend Laura Keene’s acclaimed performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, Booth—himself a well-known actor at the time—masterminded the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. By murdering the president and two of his possible successors, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to throw the U.S. government into disarray. Lincoln occupied a private box…