Did John Wilkes Booth escape justice? Inside the conspiracies that the actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 lived under a stolen Englishman s identity in India or as a bartender in Texas for decades after history says he died
John Wilkes Booth, born on May 10, 1838, was a prominent stage actor of his day
The Civil War was coming to an end when Booth, 26, shot President Abraham Lincoln during a play at Ford s Theatre in Washington, DC on April 14, 1865
The 16th president, who had steered the nation through the brutal conflict over slavery, died the next day. The country was in shock over the assassination