Perpetrator
John Wilkes Booth
- Born
- 10 May 1838
- Died
- 26 April 1865, aged about 27
- Record
- Wikidata Q180914 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Stage actor from a celebrated Maryland theatrical family and a Confederate sympathizer; shot Lincoln and was killed twelve days later at the Garrett farm.
1865 · Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C. · Executed
Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators. Read the case.
Dated events
Booth hears Lincoln speak from the White House about extending the vote to some Black men.
Booth shoots Lincoln at Ford's Theatre; at about the same time Powell attacks Seward at his home.
Booth and Herold reach Samuel Mudd's farm before dawn and have Booth's leg set.
Cavalry trap Booth and Herold in a barn on the Garrett farm; Herold surrenders and Booth is shot and dies.