John Wilkes Booth
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John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland, he was a noted actor who was also a Confederate sympathizer; denouncing President Lincoln, he lamented the then-recent abolition of slavery in the United States.
Tudor Hall in 1865
The Richmond Theatre, Richmond, Virginia in 1858, when Booth, who had started acting in 1855, made his first stage appearance there in the repertory company
A carte de visite of John Wilkes Booth
Junius Brutus Booth
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Junius Brutus Booth was an English-American stage actor. He was the father of actor John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. His other children included Edwin Booth, the foremost tragedian of the mid-to-late 19th century, Junius Brutus Booth Jr., an actor and theatre manager, and Asia Booth Clarke, a poet and writer.
L-to-r: Booth's sons, John, Edwin, and Junius Jr. in Julius Caesar
Booth's grave at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore
Visitors to the Booth family plot often leave pennies, which depict Lincoln on the obverse, on the monument of John Wilkes Booth's father, Junius.