Had he not conspired to carry out the assassinations and lived,
John Wilkes Booth might have ended up one of America's richest men.
Mary's Catholic Church--the place, it is believed, he first met fellow Marylander and celebrated actor
John Wilkes Booth.
Booth's granddaughter, told local newspapers in the 1970s and '80s that she had some possible evidence that the houseguest was her grandfather's cousin,
John Wilkes Booth.
like most Americans, I first heard about
John Wilkes Booth back in the third grade and haven't given him much thought since.
The Legend of
John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, & a Mummy.
A wall painting depicting the logo of cult independent record label SST is subtitled Sic Semper Tyrannis, a Latin phrase meaning "thus always to tyrants" that was reportedly shouted in defiance by
John Wilkes Booth immediately after he shot Abraham Lincoln and which was later reprised on a Lincoln T-shirt by Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Wyatt Evans for The Legend of
John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy (University Press of Kansas, 2004).
At one point Vowell notes that
John Wilkes Booth's fame as an actor enabled him to move freely between the North and South, an ability that the Confederate Secret Service was able to exploit.
Convicted and hanged in 1865 for conspiring to bring about his death, it remains a matter of debate whether she was a criminal mastermind or an unwitting dupe who did a few favors for her friend
John Wilkes Booth. An aptly researched and presented account by accomplished reporter and journalism professor Rebecca Jones, The Mystery of Mary Surratt is a head-on, no-nonsense, and engrossing look at an individual criminal justice case presented in plain terms for general readers of all ages.
Peanut was the man who held the getaway horse for
John Wilkes Booth behind Ford's Theater as Booth, unknown to Peanut, was assassinating Lincoln.
And his insufficiency makes Michael Cerveris as
John Wilkes Booth look bad and blustery in their climactic encounter.
Albans, Vermont, to
John Wilkes Booth and the Fathers of Confederation.