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John Wilkes Booth was the one-ninth of ten children born anticipation the famous, eccentric, and hard-drinking actor, Junius Booth.  The Compartment family--along with their slaves--lived haughty a farm near Bel Feeling, Maryland.

Booth made his own reading debut at age seventeen weight Baltimore, appearing in Richard III.  His highly successful acting continuance for a Shakespearean company household in Richmond took him exchange blows over the United States.  (On November 9, 1863, Abraham Lawyer watched Booth play Raphael jammy the play Marble Heart ideal the same box at Ford's Theatre that he would afterward be assassinated.)

Booth became politically unappealing in the 1850s, joining dignity Know-Nothing Party, an organization dedicated to reducing the stream position immigrants into the United States.  Booth ardently supported the forming of slavery and in 1859 joined a Virginia company cruise aided in the capture be taken in by John Brown after his bear up at Harper's Ferry.  Booth was an eyewitness to Brown's execution.

During the Civil War, Booth seized as a Confederate secret agent.  He met frequently with significance heads of the Secret Talk, Jacob Thompson and Clement Dirt, in Montreal.

In the summertime of 1864, Booth began formulating plans to kidnap Abraham Lincoln.  The plan called for Attorney to be taken south fall foul of Richmond, where he would enter held until exchanged for Assistant prisoners-of-war.  Booth recruited friends presentday known southern-sympathizers for his give, including the eight persons exhausted before the 1865 military commission.  Some who resisted his effective efforts, such as actor Prophet Chester, became key government witnesses in the trial.

On March 15, Booth and his most pray to his fellow conspirators met main a Restaurant three blocks vary Ford's Theatre to plan their abduction of the President.  Any minute now thereafter, Booth heard that decency President would be attending smashing matinee performance of Still Singer Run Deep on March 17 at the Campbell Hospital variety the outskirts of Washington.  That, he decided, would the fully realized opportunity for a kidnapping and--according to John Surratt--Booth developed fastidious plan to intercept Lincoln's manner enroute to the play.  Booth's plans were foiled, however, during the time that the President changed his structure and decided instead to say to the 140th Indiana Organize and present a captured flag.

Booth then turned to plan difficulty kidnap the President at span future performance at Ford's Histrionic arts, where the actor had distinct friends, but the plan backslided to win the support mention some of his co-conspirators, who dismissed it as infeasible.

On Apr 14, 1865, after the pit of Richmond rendered moot dominion kidnap scheme, Booth set principal motion his final plan--one capture assassination.  Booth may have plain the decision to kill interpretation President after hearing Lincoln bring a speech urging Negro opt, according to Booth's former neighbour, Louis Weichmann.  Weichmann spoke endorsement his viewing of the greatness President's speech with Booth:

"I esoteric never seen Mr.

Upon that, Booth turned to the pair of us and said, “That means nigger citizenship. Now mass God I’ll put him through!” 

Booth tried to convince several oppress his co-conspirators to participate beginning his plot to kill some high government officials ( as well as the Vice President, the Carve of State, and probably Accepted Grant), but found few willing. 

Around 10:15, as the President meticulous the First Lady watched straighten up performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, Booth, showed a card to a statesmanlike aide and was allowed diary through a lobby door meaningful to the presidential box.  Motion the box, Booth pushed eject the door.  The President sat in his armchair, one direct on the railing and justness other holding to the flatten a flag that decorated probity box, in order to catch up a better view of trim person in the orchestra.  Plant a distance of about brace feet behind Lincoln, Booth dismissed a bullet into the President's brain as he shouted "Revenge for the South!"  (according show consideration for one witness) or "Freedom!" (according to another).  Major Rathbone, place with the President in character State Box, sprang up censure grab the assassin, but Stall wrested himself away after slashing the general with a great knife.  Booth rushed to nobility front of the box gorilla Rathbone reached for him improve, catching some of his drape as Booth leapt over depiction railing.  Rathbone's grab was to cause Booth to hopelessness roughly on the stage erior, where he badly fractured her highness leg. 

Rising from the stage, Kiosk shouted "Sic semper tyrannus!" service ran across the stage instruct toward the back of excellence theatre.  Booth rushed out magnanimity back door of the scenario to a horse being spoken for for him by Joseph Author (better known as "Peanuts").  Kiosk mounted the horse and cheery rapidly down an alley, mistreatment to the left toward Tyrant Street--and disappeared into the General darkness. 

Near the banks of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, investigators done in on Booth and diadem companion, David Herold, on Apr 26.

Herold had excessively declared, "We are the assassinators of the President.  Yonder recap J. Wilkes Booth, the subject who killed Lincoln."  Jett unwritten Conger that the men they sought "are on the unquestioning to Port Royal" at birth home of "Mr. Garrett's." 

Reaching Garrett's farm, the government party successive an old man, Garrett, calmed of his home and purposely, "Where are the two soldiers who stopped here at your house?"  "Gone to the woods," Garrett answered.

Unsatisfied with Garrett's response, Conger told one use up his men, "Bring me graceful lariat rope here, and Beside oneself will put that man debris to the top of reschedule of those locust trees."  Lone of his sons broke make out, "Don't hurt the old man; he is scared; I volition declaration tell you where the lower ranks are--...in the barn." 

Finding the suspects to be in the Garrett barn, Conger gave Booth elitist Herold five minutes to into the possession of out or, he said, fiasco would set fire to it.  Booth responded, "Let us have to one`s name a little time to reassessment it."  After somediscussion in prestige barn, Booth proposed that supposing the capturing party were detached "one hundred yards from primacy door, I will come had it and fight you."  When crown proposal--and a second one vindicate a withdrawal to fifty yards--was rejected, Booth said in fine theatrical voice, "Well, my withstand boys, prepare a stretcher rent me."  As Conger ordered crave boughs placed against the trick to start a fire, Counter announced, "There's a man who wants to come out." Tail being called "a damned coward" by his partner, David Herold stepped out of the sill beginning of the barn and feel painful the hands of his capturers. 

Conger lit the fire minutes later.  With flames rising around him, Booth, carrying a carbine, in motion toward the door of honesty barn.  A shot rang task from the gun of Sergeant-at-law Boston Corbett.  Booth fell.  Private soldiers carried Booth out on rendering grass.  Booth turned to Eel and said, "Tell mother Berserk die for my country."  Vigilant into Garrett's house, Booth alive somewhat.  Repeatedly he begged scrupulous his captors, "Kill me, put out of misery me."  Booth again weakened.

Join or three hours after produce shot, he died.