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    was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth was an actor and southern sympathizer. On April 14, 1865 around 9:22 AM, five days after the end of the civil war, Booth attacked Lincoln in the Presidential Box of Ford’s Theatre. Both only knew that Lincoln was watching a play because Booth accidentally overheard it. Both, being an actor, knew his way around the theatre so he stepped into the presidential box and fired at Abraham Lincoln. After Booth injured Lincoln, he jumped onto…

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    mystery, and endless possible conspiracies; but one fact that is without doubt is the identity of the cold, steel killing device that mercilessly took the great leader from his loving people far too soon. On that notorious night in April, John Wilkes Booth brandished a walnut handled .44 caliber Philadelphia derringer single shot pistol; and delivered what would result in being…

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    ohn Wilkes Booth Student Name Institution Synopsis John Wilkes Booth was an American actor who was one of the most auspicious of his time. He was part of the Booth theatrical family and by 1860s he had already earned himself a good reputation in the acting career.He joined the No-Nothing Party in the 1850s and during the period of the civil war he became a secret Confederate agent. He vehemently denounced Abraham Lincoln and strongly opposed the eradication of slavery in the…

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    John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate advocate shot our nation's President. This occurred at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. John Wilkes Booth has planned many attempts to assassinate the President. Booth was a Maryland native born in 1838. At 10:15 Booth slipped into the President’s box and shot him in the back of the head with a .44 caliber single shot derringer after puncturing Henry Rathbone a young army officer with a knife who instantly rushed at John Wilkes Booth trying to…

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    Killing Lincoln

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    and Peace 3. Lincoln’s Assassination 4. The Hunt for Booth Killing Lincoln is separated into four different parts, which include; Total War, The Ides of Death, The Long Good Friday, and The Chase. Each of the sections is divided into individual chapters with a date, place, and time in which the events occurred. Lincoln also begins with a note to readers, a prologue, and…

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    have been prevented by the continued life of one man: Abraham Lincoln. The plan to assassinate what would become one of the most beloved presidents in American history came together in a matter of days, in a surprisingly simple scheme. John Wilkes Booth, the man who himself would pull the trigger, had a different original…

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    of lives that both characters live in. The characters’ name of Booth and Lincoln symbolizes the President Abraham Lincoln, who fought for African American rights. The final scene, where Booth kills his brother is set up as a metaphor. John Wilkes Booth is Lincoln’s assassin, and was a racist man who did not want African Americans to be free or accepted in society. The irony of this play is that, both Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth were white men, and the actors in this play are black. I…

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    Abraham Lincoln watched John Wilkes Booth perform in the play Marble Heart from the same box at Ford's Theatre that he would later be assassinated (UMKC). What turned this well-traveled actor into a cold hard assassin? How did commit such a drastic deed single handily? What abled him to escape that theater and evade the authorities for such a long time? Before finding out any of those answers, John Wilkes Booth’s life has to be learned about from the beginning. Booth was born on May 10, 1838,…

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    transported back to his hometown in Illinois, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold were finally caught in a barn owned to the Garretts of Maryland for the murder of the President Abraham Lincoln on April 26, 1865. At first Herold surrendered and was taken into custody. Later on as the police tried to capture Booth and make him come out and surrender, he declined and so the only safe option the police had was to burn the barn down. Still, Booth chose to stay in the barn…

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    Bethlehem van Kesteren Dr. Marks Lit. 1A 12 -14 -14 I don't think it was justified for John Wilkes Booth to kill president Abraham Lincoln. Booth shouldn't have killed Lincoln because being president means a lot of people, there could have been another way of getting what he wanted, and Abraham Lincoln was only trying to do the right thing by helping African Americans gain their freedom. Lincoln wasn't just a regular man he was the president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was…

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