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7 unusual facts about John Wilkes Booth


Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address

John Wilkes Booth is visible in the photograph, in the top row right of center (White, The Eloquent President).

Clara Fisher

Fisher performed with most of the great actors of the time like William Charles Macready, Edmund Kean, Edwin Booth (brother of John Wilkes Booth), John Brougham, Joseph Jefferson, Laura Keene and Edwin Forrest.

George Washington University Medical School

Albert Freeman Africanus King (MD, 1861, attended GW when it was called the Columbian Medical College - he was the physician who tended to Abraham Lincoln after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth. In addition, King was one of the earliest to suggest the connection between mosquitos and malaria.)

James O. Hall

He was widely regarded as one of the top experts on this matter, and is noted for having discovered a letter by John Wilkes Booth, written on the morning of the murder, in which Booth attempted to justify his actions.

Maryland Route 22

East of MD 543, MD 22 reduces to two lanes and passes through farmland with scattered residential subdivisions where the highway passes the historic homes Dibb House and Tudor Hall, the latter notable for being the boyhood home of John Wilkes Booth.

Robert G. L. Waite

To supplement his scholarship and to earn whatever spending money he could, Waite held a variety of jobs, from working in the open pit mines of the Mesabi Range in northern Minnesota to guarding the supposed corpse of John Wilkes Booth in a traveling carnival.

Samuel Beckwith

Beckwith was the first to transmit news of John Wilkes Booth's whereabouts after Lincoln's assassination, leading to his capture.


Charles Marcil

Another notable relative was Charles Marcil's maternal uncle, Edward P. Doherty, an American Civil War officer who formed and led the detachment of soldiers that captured and killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of United States President Abraham Lincoln.

Luke Halpin

A notable later appearance was in the role of "Herrold" in the 1980 television movie The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd, a dramatization of Samuel Mudd, the Maryland physician who was imprisoned as an accomplice to John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Malcolm, Maryland

Horsehead Road, one of the five roads meeting here, was the route traveled by John Wilkes Booth to Dr. Mudd's house after Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Parkhurst

George A. Parkhurst (1841–1890), actor who was on stage the night John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre

Port Royal, Virginia

Probably Port Royal's most notable claim to fame is that John Wilkes Booth was killed about two miles outside town by Sgt. Boston Corbett, part of a contingent of federal troops, at the now obsolete Garrett farmstead (look for prominent markers along northbound Rt. 301) on April 26, 1865 after Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865, in Ford's Theater in Washington, DC.

Prince of Players

Edwin "Ned" Booth is the son of the noted thespian Junius Brutus Booth and the older brother of another actor, John Wilkes Booth.

Ray Neff

Dr. Ray Neff, a retired health sciences professor at Indiana State University with a chemistry background, is a leading proponent of an alternative history theory about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and his killer John Wilkes Booth.


see also

National Civil War Museum

collection of memorabilia from Lincoln’s assassination including a lock of Lincoln’s hair, a sash from the funeral train, (the original) telegram ordering the arrest of John Wilkes Booth, a ticket to that night’s production of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre, a replica of his "life mask", and a fragment of Mary Todd Lincoln's dress that she wore the night of the assassination

Thomas Corbett

Boston Corbett (Thomas P. Corbett, 1832–1894), Union Army soldier who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth