By the time he was caught he knew he would be, but his diary reflects that he thought he would be a hero to the southern states and that they would help him escape Union troops. The opposite was true and he didn't get any support from anyone to help him escape.
He and his cronies were in a barn and he got shot
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
no John Wilkes Booth did not kill President Lincoln. He was easily recognizable, having been a nationally renown actor and considered the handsomest man in America. The other guests in the Presidential box recognized him, the stagehand holding his horse outside knew him. (NEW RESPONDENT) I don't understand this answer. There are many conflicting versions of the events of that night. But nobody has tried to prove the innocence of Booth.
At Garrett's farm south of Port Royal. Virginia.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. The President and Mrs. Lincoln were watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC on April 14, 1865 when he was shot by Booth. President Lincoln was taken across the street to the Pederson House where he died the following day.
Booth blamed the president for the Civil War and all of the South's problems.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Boothe planned on, and succeeded in, killing Union president Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
He hid out in a barn in Virginia after he shot President Lincoln.
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Maryland
John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln in the Ford Theatre.
John Wilkes Booth was from the state of Maryland. He assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. John Wilkes Booth was killed in 1865.
south that's why he killed Abraham was a northern
John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth planned on shooting President Lincoln in the back of the head in the balcony of Ford's Theater.