John Wilkes Booth
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Robin Wright keeps the focus on her work, not divorce...she's shooting with director Robert Redford about Abe Lincoln. She plays Mary Surrat, the owner of the boarding house where John Wilkes Booth hatched his Lincoln assassination plot. But no matter what her hair color, she says she is able to... In this article: Robin Wright, Sean Penn, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Lincoln assassination, Forrest Gump, Robert Redford, Abe Lincoln, and Keanu Reeves |
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boston.com - Latest theater and arts news | November 19, 2009
A historical holiday
...War Christmas'' is populated, "Ragtime''-style, with familiar historical characters (Abraham Lincoln, members of his Cabinet, John Wilkes Booth, Walt Whitman, Clara Barton, Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant) and...
In this article: Paula Vogel, Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and Ken Cheeseman
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AP Online | November 17, 2009
Sara Ruhl sets Broadway buzzing in two rooms
...should be a place for it in New York, so I couldn't be happier," she says. Cerveris, a Tony winner for his portrayal of John Wilkes Booth in the revival of "Assassins," said the laying bare of Dr. Givings at his wife's desperate urging...
In this article: Broadway, Laura Benanti, Michael Cerveris, and God
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Playbill.com | November 12, 2009
Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 13
...interpreter of Shakespeare and brother to actor Junius Brutus Booth and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Broadway's Booth theatre is named for him. Advertisement 1906 Alla Nazimova makes her Broadway debut in the title role of Hedda...
In this article: Broadway, Boy George, Billy Elliot, Eugene Ionesco, London, Rosie O'Donnell, Elton John, and Hedda Gabler
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E! Online | November 12, 2009
John Wilkes Booth Gets Another Shot on Ghost Lab
...video and no ghosts. GL also boasts a herd of Texas good ol' boy hosts in search of haints, specifically the spirit of John Wilkes Booth. And what better bait for the dead assassin than a replica of the weapon he used to murder Abraham...
In this article: Abraham Lincoln and Texas
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The Wrap | 10 hours ago
DC Comics: Why White House Gate Crashers Aren't Funny
...to make a political statement, because their only agenda is appeasing their own vanity. How different history might have been if John Wilkes Booth had a Facebook account. The Salahis are by no means alone. A little more than a month before...
In this article: White House, Facebook, and DC Comics
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Boston Herald | 6 days ago
An overstuffed Civil War Christmas fruitcake
...home to join the dwindling Confederate Army, a black Union sergeant (Gilbert Glenn Brown) blusters and mourns his kidnapped wife, John Wilkes Booth (Ed Hoopman) is planning to kidnap Lincoln, and an escaped slave child is wandering lost on...
In this article: Paula Vogel, Ken Cheeseman, Christmas Eve, How I Learned to Drive, and Mary Todd
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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next morning from a single gunshot wound to the back of the head, becoming the first American president to be assassinated.
Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and by the 1860s was a popular actor, well known in both the Northern United States and the South. He was also a Confederate sympathizer who was vehement in his denunciation of the Lincoln Administration and outraged by the South's defeat in the American Civil War. He strongly opposed the abolition of slavery in the United States and Lincoln's proposal to extend voting rights to recently emancipated slaves.
Booth, and a group of co-conspirators whom he led, planned to kill Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward in a desperate bid to help the tottering Confederacy's cause. Although Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the war was not yet over since Confederate General Joseph Johnston's army was still fighting the Union Army under General William Tecumseh Sherman. Of the conspirators, only Booth was successful in carrying out his part of the plot.
- Birth Date:
- May 10, 1838
- Birthplace:
- Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Death Date:
- April 26, 1865
- Place of Death:
- Port Royal, Virginia, U.S.
- Religion:
- Protestant Episcopal
- Occupation:
- Actor
- Known for:
- Abraham Lincoln assassination
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