Who was John Wilkes Booth? and what did he do?

Question

10 points easy.

Answer 1

He was a famous actor from a family of famous actors in the mid-1800s. He shot and killed Pres. Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater on Good Friday in 1865. He attempted to leap from the balcony but his spur got caught on the bunting and he broke his leg but still got away on a horse. He was on the run for about a week until he was caught and killed.

Answer 2

John Wilkes Booth was part of a family of actors of the stage who was quite a ladies' man . He was known as a Confederate sympathizer and had planned to kidnap Lincoln before he decided to assassinate him along with Andrew Johnson, the Vice President and William Seward the Secretary of State.On the night of April 14,1865 around 10:20 pm a shot rang out from the presidential box and John Wilkes Booth was heard saying "Sic semper tyrannis" the state motto of Virginia which means "Down with tyrants." Lincoln would die the next morning. Booth would eventually be caught up to in a barn in Virginia and was eventually killed. In view of the Lincoln assassination, it made Lincoln a hero and brought the South more consternation and would reverse Reconstruction policies. Booth was the only one to achieve his goal and four conspirators of Booth were hanged.

Answer 3

He was a famous actor from a family of famous actors in the mid-1800s. He shot and killed President . Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater on Good Friday in 1865. He attempted to leap from the balcony but his spur got caught on the bunting and he broke his leg but still got away on a horse. He was on the run for about a week until he was caught and killed.

When Abraham Lincoln was elected president on November 6, 1860, Booth wrote a long speech that decried what he saw as Northern abolitionism and made clear his strong support of the South and the institution of slavery. On April 12, 1861, the Civil War broke out, and eventually 11 Southern states seceded from the Union. Booth's family was from Maryland, a border state which remained in the Union during the war despite a slaveholding population that was strongly sympathetic to the Southern cause. Along with the fact that Maryland shared a border with Washington, D.C., Lincoln had declared martial law in the state, a move that many, including Booth, viewed as unconstitutional and an abuse of executive power.

As a famous and popular actor, Booth was a friend of the owner of Ford's Theater, John T. Ford, and had free access to all parts of the theater. Boring a spyhole into the presidential box earlier that day, the assassin could see if his intended victim had made it to the play. That evening, at around 10 p.m., as the play progressed, John Wilkes Booth slipped into Lincoln's box and shot him in the back of the head with a .44 caliber Deringer. Booth's escape was almost thwarted by Major Henry Rathbone, who was present in the Presidential box with Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln, and Rathbone's fiancée, Clara Harris. Rathbone momentarily grappled with Booth after the fatal shot was fired, but was stabbed and slashed by a dagger that Booth had carried with him in addition to his pistol.

Answer 4

He was a white man who lived during the Civil War. He was also the man who killed our 16th president Abraham Lincoln at Ford Theater. He shot Lincoln while he was watching a play. Then from atop Lincolns sitting booth, he jumped to the stage and broke his leg. He then ran out the back and got away. He died days later though in a nearby house.

Answer 5

He was a 19th century actor whose family was famous up and down the east coast as Shakespearean actors. He hatched the plan to assassinate Lincoln with the hope that by killing Lincoln, Johnson and Seward (sec. of state) that he could create chaos in the North and allow the South to regroup. He took it upon himself to assassinate Lincoln and sent other less qualified members of his conspiracy to tend to the others. Johnson (vp) was not where he was supposed to be because he stayed home due to illness. The brothers sent to assassinate Seward got confused on directions and turned the wrong way at the top of the stairway and attacked Seward's son instead of Seward. The household was roused and the would be assassins fled. The only one successful in the plot was Booth, who after shooting Lincoln in the back of the head with a derringer pistol jumped out of presidential booth onto the stage shattering the bone in his leg in the process, he limped out of Ford's theater and escaped into the countryside later to be captured and killed by the army. Lincoln was taken to a warehouse across the street and died several hours later.

Answer 6

Assasinated President Lincoln.

Answer 7

He was an actor in the mid 1800s, and he shot & killed Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 8

he shot abraham lincoln