john wilkes booth

     

Once known as "the handsomest man in America", he performed his last play, "The Apostate", on March 18, 1865

Trivia about john wilkes booth

  • The knife he used to stab Major Henry Rathbone is in a Washington, D.C. museum
  • The year before assassinating Lincoln, this actor organized an attempt to abduct the president
  • In June 1996 an appeals court turned down a request to exhume this presidential assassin & actor
  • He cried, "Sic Semper Tyrannis! The South is avenged!" at Ford's Theater
  • At Ford's Theatre, some claim to hear this assassin running up the back staircase
  • This assassin's 3rd, 4th & 5th vertebrae aren't in a Baltimore cemetery; they're at the National Museum of Health & Medicine
  • 1865:"The South is avenged!"
  • Looking for a getaway? The Surratt Society sponsors bus tours along the escape route of this assassin
  • On the night of April 14, 1865, he met co-conspirator David Herold in Maryland
  • He was cornered & fatally wounded by federal troops on a farm near Port Royal, Virginia on April 26, 1865
  • Infamous 19th century actor seen here:
  • Thomas Mallon's book "Henry and Clara" concerns Henry Rathbone, wounded by this man at Ford's Theater
  • A presidential assassin: JWB
  • In 1864 he organized a conspiracy to abduct Lincoln; it didn't work so he came up with a cunning new plan
  • Joey says, "How you doin'" to this actor on April 14, 1865 but has no idea what "Sic Semper Tyrannis" means
  • Born May 10, 1838 near Bel Air, Maryland, he'd find fame in the theater for 2 very different reasons
  • On Nov. 9, 1863 Lincoln went to the theater & saw "The Marble Heart" starring this man
  • Edward Doherty commanded the cavalry unit that captured this assassin in 1865
  • This assassin
  • Born in 1838, this Marylander was famous for playing Romeo--offstage as well as on
  • After the deed, he leaped to the stage shouting "Sic semper tyrannis"
  • Leon Czolgosz, Charles Guiteau & this 19th century thespian appear in the offbeat Sondheim musical "Assassins"
  • The phrase "His name is mud" predates Dr. Mudd's setting this assassin's leg, so it doesn't mean the doctor
  • In a classic "Twilight Zone" episode, a time traveler tries to save Lincoln but is drugged by this man
  • (Sam Waterston reads the clue.) After the murder, you shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!"... Ballistics says it's your derringer, we've got Surratt--it's over
  • Early in the morning of April 15, 1865, David Herold & this man showed up at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd
  • In 1859 he joined a Shakespearean stock company in Richmond, Virginia (but that's not why he's in the category)