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3 days ago · Born in 1838 in Maryland, John Wilkes Booth was an actor, reported History. He eventually took the stage after being born into a family of actors. Booth appeared in Shakespeare’s Richard III in ...
5 days ago · The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most shocking and tragic events in American History. For over a century and a half, the sto...
12 hours ago · He was channeling John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman, Travis Bickle: the great loser-antagonists of American history and cinema. And his target, however incidentally, was ...
1 day ago · John Wilkes Booth was a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland; though he never joined the Confederate army, he had contacts with the Confederate secret service.
1 day ago · The first USS Montauk was a single-turreted Passaic-class monitor in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.. It saw action throughout the war. It was used as the floating prison for the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and was the site of the autopsy and identification of assassin John Wilkes Booth.
5 days ago · Enraged by the Emancipation Proclamation, the actor John Wilkes Booth, a pathological racist and unreconstructed Confederate, sought to exact vengeance on the race traitor and to incite a revived Southern uprising by taking out Lincoln, whom he would attend to personally, and the top leadership of the administration, whom he delegated to a ...
5 days ago · Lincoln, the 16th president of the US, was the first ever to be assassinated after being shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth on 14 April 1865. ... John F Kennedy (president 1961-1963)
