2. Who was John Wilkes booth?
• Born in Maryland in 1838
• Southern sympathizer (he wanted the Confederacy to
win)
• He stayed in the North during the Civil War
• Famous Actor
• He planned to kidnap the President one month earlier,
but the President did not show up to the spot where
Booth thought he would be.
4. “Our American Cousin”
• Five days after the Civil War ends, Lincoln attends a
play with his wife.
• They sit in a private booth above the stage.
• John Wilkes Booth sneaks in the booth and shoots
the President in the head.
• Booth leaps off the booth to the stage and breaks
his leg, but escapes.
• Lincoln is carried to a farmhouse across the street
and dies the next morning.
6. Booth on the run…
• The Union Army searched for Booth
• Booth, with a broken leg, escapes Washington D.C.
on a horse with an accomplice.
• They stop at a farmhouse where a doctor sets
Booth’s broken leg.
• Using a boat, they go across the Potomac River and
hide in a barn in Virginia
8. Booth on the run…
• The Union Army found Booth on April 26th
• They surrounded the barn and set it on fire.
• As the barn burned, Booth was shot.
• He was carried out of the building and died 3 hours
later.
