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John Wilkes Booth - College Term Paper

John Wilkes Booth

was a very notorious person. Mostly people think about him assassinating Abe Lincoln, but he was a very famous actor and had a very interesting life.
He was born on May 10, 1838, in Bel Air, Maryland, in a log cabin. His parents, Junius Brutus Booth and Mary Ann Holmes, had been married in England and then come to America. He was one of ten children. His only sister was a writer. She would later write books about their family. Booth called himself JB Wilkes. His friends called him Wilkes.
One of his brothers, Edwin, was a famous actor just like his father. His father started acting when he was seventeen which lead to him traveling a lot. His father died on a steamboat, of a heart attack, ...

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He got hundreds of love letters from his fans. His last tour was in 1862.
Booth did not fight in the war. The war split Booth's family apart. Half of his brothers went on one side and the rest went on the other side. Booth decided to support the North. After a while, Booth wanted to support the South because he thought they were winning the war. He was a "violently pro confederate". He smuggled quinine across enemy lines to the confederates.
Later Booth had a plan. He was going to ransom Abe Lincoln for rebel prisoners. He was also thinking about kidnapping Secretary of State, William H. Seward and Vice President, Andrew Johnson. Then he changed his mind. He was going to murder all of them. He found some people to help him. They were, David E. Harold, Mary Surratt, and a couple of other men. He had a twisted mind.
Booth headed off to Ford's Theater to kill Lincoln while he was watching the play "Our American Cousin". He knew Ford's Theater like the back of his hand. He knew ...

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Added: 11/16/2008 09:53:34 AM
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