Booth, John Wilkes (1838–1865)
US actor and Confederate sympathizer who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln 14 April 1865.
Booth had earlier conceived a plan to kidnap Lincoln and decided to kill him in vengeance when the plan failed. While Lincoln was watching a play from a box at Ford's Theatre, Washington, he shot the president. Booth escaped with a broken leg and was later shot in a barn in Virginia when he refused to surrender.
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