Assassinate R John Wilkes Booth example essay topic

John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth (A man with a mission) is known as killing one of our U. S presidents, Abraham Lincoln. How did he do it when did he doit and where did he do it at? Lincoln helping abolish slavery state by state to try to stop the civil war. John Wilkes Booth as he was known as a professional actor before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Today his life is often forgotten and is also overlooked in schools around the world John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838 in a log house.

The family home was on property near Bel Air, Maryland, twenty- five miles south of the Mason- Dixon line. Elder brother Edwin supervised his younger brother's upbringing. Later Edwin and older sister Asia would write about their eccentric brother's behavior. When finishing a year of school at a picnic he told his sister Asia he went to a fortune teller a couple weeks before and the fortune teller told him ' Your life will be a short one and a victorious one at that. You will accomplish most of everything you set your mind too. (this might sound a little bit weird, but she's a ' fortune teller') This might have set a tick in his psychotic mind that maybe he thought that he could do anything he wanted to do. (Dort, Aaron) Francis Wilson, who wrote a biography of Booth in 1929, stated that Booth opened his stage career in 1855 at the Charles Street Theatre in Baltimore.

He began performing on a regular basis two years later. Once Booth started upon his acting career, he wanted the comparisons between himself and his late father to Cease. It was a common practice of theater companies to retain actors who would complement a touring, star figure. Booth eventually became one the these star figures, with stock companies for one and two week engagements. Often a different play was performed each night, requiring Booth to stay up studying his new role until dawn, when he would rise and make his way to the theater for rehearsal. In October of 1864 Booth traveled to Montreal.

He conducted a number of meetings with men associated with the Confederacy. The record is unclear as to what exactly transpired. By mid- November Booth checked into the National Hotel in Washington. Booth carried with him a letter of introduction from the Confederates, with whom he had conferred, addressed to Dr. William Queen of Charles County, Maryland. This letter led Booth to meet with Dr. Samuel A. Mudd in November of 1864. Booth began putting together an operation, purportedly with Dr. Mudd and others, to capture the President and transport him to Richmond.

By capturing Lincoln, they expected to force the federal government to return Confederate prisoners of war who were confined in Union prisons and then return them to fight Union forces. After nearly five months of planning, the attempt to capture the president took place on March 17, 1865. Mr. Lincoln, however, disappointed the would-be captors by changing his plans. Instead of visiting a hospital outside of Washington, President Lincoln attended a luncheon at the National Hotel. This was the hotel Booth used as his temporary home while in Washington, DC. On April 14, 1865 Good Friday, in Ford's Theater on the presidential balcony standing a close nine feet away using a.

5 caliber gun John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln. The theater was performing 'Our American Cousin,'. If Lincoln had turned around, he would have known his assailant right away, for he had seen him perform. On the occasion of Booth performing, 'Our American Cousin,' Lincoln asked to see Booth. Though Booth being true to the south declined the offer. After Booth shot the president, he jumped off the fifteen foot balcony while yelling, 'Sic semper tyrannies!' (the virginia state motto, 'Thus ever to tyrants!' ) (Booth, John Wilkes) He caught his spur on the bunting, fell, and broke his left leg.

After exiting Ford's Theatre, John Wilkes Booth mounted a horse that was being held by Joseph 'Peanuts' Burroughs, an innocent theater employee. Booth rode down the alley, turned left up another alley, turned onto 'F's tree, and headed toward the Navy Yard Bridge. Although the bridge was guarded by Sergeant Cobb and his detail, no passes had been required for crossing since the first of April. Thus, as the guards were there as a matter of routine rather than of necessity, Booth and fellow conspirator David Herold, who arrived separately, were allowed to pass without hindrance. The two men rendezvoused later and then headed to theSurratt Tavern in Surrattsville (now Clinton, MD) where they arrived shortly after midnight. At the tavern, they picked up supplies (including two Spencer carbines, ammunition, and field glasses) before continuing south.

Booth's Diary (used as a notebook). (I think tis was important to the cops and to the world because this is what John Wilkes Booth used as a planner of some sort.) At 4: 00 a.m. on April 15, they arrived at the house of Dr. Samuel Mudd. Booth received medical treatment for his injured leg and both men were extended hospitality by the Mudd. Early in the afternoon, April 15, Booth and Herold headed into the nearby Zekiah swamp and were guided boswell Swann, a free black. About midnight, Swann brought the two men to their next destination, the home of southern sympathizer, Colonel Samuel Cox, who provided them with food for the next four days. On April 20, Thomas A. Jones, Cox's adopted son, led them to the Potomac River.

Instead of crossing the river to Virginia, they headed north on the Potomac and landed on the Maryland side at the home of southern sympathizer PeregrinDavis. The next night, they successfully crossed the river to Virginia, where they stayed at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Quesenberry, a woman who was well connected to the Confederate spy network. Thomas Harbin, an acquaintance of Booth and originally part of the plan to capture President Lincoln, took them to William Bryant and then to Dr. Richard Stuart's home. Stuart, however, did not allow the two men to remain at his home. Booth and Herold went to the cabin of William Lucas, another free black man, forcibly removing Lucas and his wife from the cabin for the night. On the morning of April 24, Booth and Herold left the cabin of William Lucas in a wagon driven by Lucas's on Charles.

He drove the men about 10 miles to the ferry at Port Conway, in King George County, Virginia. As Booth and Herold were crossing the Rappahannock River, when they were greeted by three former Confederate soldiers. 1st Lt. Mortimer B. Ruggles, his cousin Pvt. Absalom R. Bainbridge along with Pvt. William S. Jett. Later Herold boasted to the soldiers that they had killed President Lincoln. Jett aided Booth and Herold by eventually finding shelter for the pair at the Garrett farm. Herold then left Booth at the Garrett farm with the three soldiers and headed for Bowling Green, Virginia.

The men stopped at a tavern, described by some as '... house of entertainment,' and continued chatting and drinking for several hours. Herold spent the night of April 23 at a nearby family farm. The next morning two ex- Confederate soldiers brought Herold back to the Garrett farm. Meanwhile, twenty- five members of the 16th New York Cavalry unit, under the command of Lt. Edward Doherty, were following Booth's trail. Lt. Doherty had found out from a shad fisherman, Dick Wilson, that Pvt. Jett had been on the ferry with Booth on the morning of April 24. Doherty was also told that Jett had a girl friend in nearby Bowling Green and Jett could be found there.

Several hours after arriving at the Star Hotel, Detective Everton Conger, one of Doherty's men, forced Jett to reveal Booth's location. In the early morning hours of April 26, 1865, the column of soldiers entered the Garrett farm and were told by the Garrett's about two men sleeping in the farm's tobacco shed. At first Booth refused to surrender, and about 4 a. m., the tobacco shed was set afire. The blaze allowed the soldiers to see Booth moving in the wooden building with a pistol and a rifle. It was at this point that Boston Corbett fired his own pistol, claiming later that it was to prevent Booth from killing more people. Several soldiers dragged Booth, still alive, from the burning structure.

Booth had been shot in the neck by Sgt. Boston Corbett. As he was laid on a wooden porch, he was found to be paralyzed from the neck down and whispered his final words, 'tell my mother I did it for my country... useless, useless [while looking at his hands being held up to his face]. ' [In reaction to Lincoln's death a women from the south replied, 'Hurrah! Old Abe Lincoln is dead!' South Carolina girl, on hearing Lincoln's death, April 15, 1865. In the end two people where killed the assassinated and.

Lincoln the assassinated killed good friday April 15, 1865. The assassinate r John Wilkes Booth completed his so called mission, with the help of a few people. A conspires maybe, of those on the side of evil who believe that we should have slavery today. The who are racists might look back on the day of the death of Lincoln. So do you think this.