John Wilkes Booth, member of one of the United States’ most distinguished acting families of the 19th century and the assassin who mortally wounded U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. After a manhunt Booth was killed during a standoff with Federal troops.
Union troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe Lincoln, before finding him in a Virginia barn and killing him on this day in history, April 26, 1865.
I know when I’m not wanted. And standing there, at the end of a crater-pocked boat launch, watching water — far deeper and faster than I had expected — surge
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