John Wilkes Booth
...killing one
of our U . S presidents, Abraham Lincoln. How did he do it when did he do
it 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...
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