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They found John Wilkes Booth about a week after he killed Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth was the one who was found guilty.
He was never found guilty of that charge.
The name of Lincoln's killer was John Wilkes Booth.Lincoln was assasinated in a theater John came up behind him and shouted "Im gonna kill you!" a secound before he shot Lincoln in the head. John then hid in a warehouse until he was found
After killing Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth fled Washington to his farm in the Shenandoah Valley where his wife Izola nursed him back to health. After Booth's leg healed he moved around place to place. In 1883, he found his way to India where he wrote a will to free up the money held in a US bank that was inaccessible to him. That money was deposited under Booth's stage name John Wilkes. After writing the will, he faked John Wilkes' death.After a long investigation by ex-president Ulises S. Grant, ex-General Lou Wallace and an ex-secret-service-agent by the name of Andrew Potter, they found the will to be valid and paid the money to Booth's heirs. Booth then found his way to Oklahoma where he died in 1903.Source: Lincoln, Davis, and Booth
According to the Wikipedia article on Asia Booth, john Wilkes Booth had 9 siblings, at least one of whom, Asia Booth, was a sister. She married John Sleeper Clark in 1859. She became a poet and writer, but found it necessary to move with her husband to England after her brother assassinated President Lincoln.
Lincoln died after some languishing and Booth was found hiding in a barn and was captured. There is speculation to this day whether Booth was the actual perpetrator of the crime, at least in the minds of the Booth family.
John Wilkes Booth was in a barn house in Port Royal, Virginia in 1865 he died there his last words "Tell my mother I died for my country"
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john Wilkes Booth is believed to be the assassin.... He killed Abe because he had heard that Lincoln planned to free the slaves and it angered him.
Because he was a fugitive and he was hiding from the police after assassinating Abraham Lincoln. Then, he was shot in that barn by the local police.
John Wilkes Booth was part of a Southern conspiracy to kidnap or kill Northern leaders, including Abraham Lincoln. On April 14, 1865, Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln, at Ford's Theater in Washington DC and Lincoln died nine hours later, at 7:22am, on April 15, 1865. Booth was pursued, and was found and shot 11 days later. (see related link)