John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth was 26 years old when he was shot and killed on April 26, 1865.
The man that assassinated President Lincoln.
they did not know he was going to be killed
He was captured and killed when he refused to surrender.
No marriage and no children. That never happened.
He used a pistol to kill Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Stage actor John Wilkes Booth is credited as to being the one who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln. This happened at Ford Theater in 1865.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head.
After he shot president Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth seeked refuge in a barn when federal agents arrived and set it on fire. After Booth refused to surrender and come out of the barn, one of the agents shot booth despite given instructions by his officer to take him out alive.
American actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on Good Friday, 14 April 1865. Lincoln died the next morning.