1865
John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838)
John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838)
John Wilkes Booth
American stage actor and assassin (1838–1865)
- Died
- 1865
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland, he was a noted actor who was also a Confederate sympathizer; denouncing Lincoln, he lamented the then-recent abolition of slavery in the United States.