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the nation had just come out of the Civil War. Booth was an actor, trained to lead a double life while Lincoln studied hard and had the skills to unite the country again. If this were a play, both men clearly played the right characters. The man who shot Abraham Lincoln was named John Wilkes Booth. He was born on May 10, 1838 near Bel Air, Maryland into a family of actors, according to the author of “Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination” on history.com. Booth was raised on a farm and attended…

two. This section begins on April 10 with the aftermath and celebration of the Union victory in the Civil War. John Wilkes Booth is plotting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, along with other members of his cabinet. Booth had been planning to kidnap Lincoln during the Civil War to help the Confederacy, but he has since shifted the plans. There are three people other than Booth that are involved with his conspiracy. Part three, “The Long Good Friday,” begins at seven a.m. on Friday, April 14.…

If John Wilkes Booth had been raised in the North and not the South, he would not have had such extreme views and would not have killed Abraham Lincoln. One could argue that something like this is predestined in a person, or that nature comes before nurture. However, the way Booth was raised clearly had a big part in leading up to his attempted kidnapping and following that, his assassination of America’s sixteenth president. His views radically contradicted those of Lincoln, and when, where,…

everything would change in a blink of an eye. It was just past 10:00 pm, John Wilkes Booth headed up the stairs towards the presidential box. The security guard protecting that room, names Henry Rathbone, was stabbed by Booth. Then Booth entered and shot Lincoln with a .44 caliber gun in the back if the head. The bullet entered through his left ear and was stuck behind his right eye. Lincoln was paralyzed immediately. Then, Booth jumped off of the balcony and broke his leg, but he still managed…

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…

“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…

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…