John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth was a very brilliant actor. His natural talent for performing, much like his fathers, made him a pleasure to watch in the plays of William Shakespeare, after finishing the 1859–1860 theatre season in Richmond, Virginia, Booth became more and more popular as he embarked on his first national tour as a leading actor. It seemed this young and gifted actor would soon become famous.

John Wilkes Booth, though an exceptional actor, is not famous to us because of his appearances in many plays, but is known as the nation's most famous assassin. He killed the president Lincoln, he killed him because Booth was on the south’s side during the war, He believed the Civil War was necessary to maintain Southern freedom, unlike lincoln who was on the north's. Booth had first planned only to kidnap the president until he set the south's prisoners free; but when his plan failed, he took a different approach. Booth knew the theater's layout, having performed there several times, as recently as the previous month. Booth believed that if he and the others could kill the President, Grant, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward, at the same time, he could disrupt the Union government long enough for the Confederacy to mount a resurgence.
It was about 10:15 p.m when president Lincoln said his final words, and Booth went through with his plan. Booth was the only one of the assassins to succeed, leaving only Abraham dead. hn Wilkes Booth, had escaped Washington DC, after murdering President Lincoln.
It was at most 12 days before he and his co-conspirator, David Herold, were found sleeping in a Tobacco Barn, near Port Royal, VA, about 60 miles from Ford's theater. On April 26, 1865, at about 2am, the Union Calvary found the two in the barn, and surrounded it. Herold, immediately surrendered, and the barn was set on fire. Booth was shot, and dragged from the burning barn, unable to walk. He was paralyzed and was moved to the front porch of the house belonging to the owner of the tobacco barn. He died at about 7am, the same morning he was shot.