John Wilkes Booth

Members of the Booth family:

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Junius Brutus Booth (father)

Mary Ann Holmes Booth (mother)

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Junius Brutus Jr.

Rosalie Ann

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Four died in childhood:

Henry

Mary Ann

Frederick

Elizabeth

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Edwin Thomas

Asia Frigga

John Wilkes

Joseph Adrian

Because he tried to keep it going despit Lee's surrender.

He was an actor.

Yes. Different states may have different election laws but this is my personal experience in elections in NJ and I believe they are typical throughout the country. A general rule in states is that there be no electioneering within 100 feet of the entrance to the polling place. All polling places have a US flag at the entrance and the 100 feet begins there. Wearing a candidate's t-shirt is considered electioneering and any person wearing one will be refused not only admission to the polling place but also past the 100 foot line. The person will be allowed to vote if the shirt is removed but not before. Other types of electioneering that are forbidden within the 100 area are: parking a vehicle with signs advocating a candidate wearing pins or other items that identify candidate handing out a candidate's literature handing out literature for a candidate placing any kind of political sign within the area speaking directly to voters about a candidate speaking to others loudly enough about a candidate so that persons waiting to vote can hear There can be any other form of electioneering imaginable. And imaginations do work hard at this time. In my experience in elections, as a Challenger seeking to ensure that no violations of the election laws occur, I once convinced the Board of Elections to order certain persons who were working at the polling place to remove smiley face stickers the size of a quarter they were wearing in the polling place. The reason was that they were the same colors that the local candidate had chosen for his campaign signs. This was an obvious attempt to subtly influence voters to think about that candidate. Petty? Yes. But they did not think so because they argued with Board officials that they were harmless and should not be banned. So if it were so harmless, why do it in the first place and then why resist the order to remove them. The Board of Elections ordered them to remove the stickers or be ejected from the polling place. If stickers like these can be banned, then t-shirts will also be banned.

After 12 days on the run, Booth was located in a barn. Union soldiers lit the barn on fire to force him out. Before he got out a soldier named Corbett shot him in the neck. The bullet severed his spinal column and he was instantly paralized. He lingered for a couple of hours and finally died on the front porch of the farmhouse.

It was reported that he exclaimed "Sic semper tyrannis!" (Latin: Thus does it always come to tyrants!)

Lincoln was shot at 10:15 PM on 14 April 1865 and was in custody by 7:00 AM on 26 April 1865. The total elapsed time between his escape from Ford's Theatre and the moment he was dragged wounded from the burning tobacco barn at Port Royal, Virginia is something like 11 days and 8 hours or 11.33 days.

They (Booth and Herold) had stopped briefly at Surratt's Tavern to pick up weapons and supplies before proceeding to the home of Doctor Mudd for treatment of Booth's broken leg on the 15th. They continued south to the home of Samuel Cox seeking help to cross the Potomac River, and spent 5 days in the swampy woods waiting for a boat. They made a navigation error and landed back in Maryland. Colpnel John Hughes gave them shelter until they could try the midnight crossing again. They slept in a slave cabin at the Lucas Farm on the 23rd and reached Garrett's Farm on 24 April where Herold surrendered to the Union Cavalry that surrounded them and Booth was killed on 26 April 1865.

Yes, but that was not illegal, immoral or traitorous.

Yes he had 4 allies which were all from the south.

There is no concrete evidence to suggest that John Wilkes Booth was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Booth was a Confederate sympathizer and a fervent supporter of the Southern cause during the Civil War. His assassination of President Abraham Lincoln was motivated by his political beliefs and desire to avenge the Confederate defeat, rather than any association with the KKK. Booth's actions were driven by his personal convictions rather than any formal membership in the KKK.

He did not marry but sometime in late 1864 or early 1865, Booth entered into a serious romance with Lucy Lambert Hale.

His fiancee was Lucy Lambert Hale, but Booth never married.

2nd respondent,

John Wilkes Booth was married to Izola Mills and had a daughter by her a couple of years earlier. He was using Lucy Lambert Hale to get information about Lincoln's whereabouts. I do not know what he promised or told her in order to get that information, but in the months before Lincoln's assassination Booth impregnated two women, not Lucy. Lucy never said she was engaged to Booth and Booth never said he was engaged to Lucy. There was a rumor about Booth being engage, but in that one conversation, the girls name was never mentioned.

Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's Vice President, became a full President after Lincoln died. He was not an acting President. The Vice President becoming a full President, after the death of the former President, was established long before Andrew Johnson became the first Vice President to succeed a murdered President. Previous Vice Presidents had succeeded Presidents who had died from medical illnesses.

A .44 caliber derringer.
A small pistol called a Philadelphia Derringer.

Worked perfectly. His choice of George Atzerodt to assassinate Vice President Johnson was terribly flawed. Atzerodt lost his nerve and made no effort to reach his target, instead, he went out and got drunk. Lewis Powell made a try at killing Secretary of State William H. Seward but bungled the job. The escape plan was also botched, and that meant that would lead to Booth's death on 26 April 1865.

because he think that lincoln was the one that made the confederates after the civil war

Samuel Mudd was the medical doctor who splinted Booth's broken foot and made him a pair of crutches. John Wilkes Booth was an actor and Lincoln's assassin.

John Wilkes Booth had at least one sister. Her name was Asia.

John Wilkes Booth's parents were Junius Brutus Booth and Mary Ann Holmes.

He was never hung. He was shot in the neck.

It was a detachment of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment.

John Wilkes Booth's appointment book was used as his "diary" during his 12 day dodge from authorities, after assassinating President Lincoln. This appointment book or diary is currently on display at Ford's theater in Washington DC.

John wilkes booth died from a gunshot wound.

Peanuts was not the name of the horse, Peanuts was the nickname of the man who held control of the horse for Booth.

The horse's name, according to several sources, was Cola.

John Wilkes Booth never saw the inside of a jail. He was trapped by Union soldiers in a barn near Port Royal Virginia and was shot to death while resisting arrest. His accomplice, David Herold, was captured and spent two months in the Old Capitol prison before he was tried and executed by hanging.

to allow the south to continue to fight the war