How Did John Wilkes Booth Kill Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln during the Civil war; through his early life he did many different acts, but killing Lincoln was his biggest performance. During Booth’s childhood he wanted to be in the army and serve under the president. He went to many different boarding school up until his father died when he was 14. His early life obviously did not influence his act of killing Lincoln. He killed Lincoln by shooting him in the back of the head at Ford’s theater. He escaped on horseback, while he broke his leg, to go to a doctor’s house. After that he went to a friends barn and ended up dying in a fire there.(Right or Wrong, God Judge Me)
During his early childhood, he went to a lot of different boarding schools including Milton Boarding School. He had 9 siblings and 4 of them died young.(Right or Wrong, God Judge Me) His parents were both immigrants from Europe, his dad, Junius Booth, was drunk most of the time and his mom was Mary Ann Holmes.( Civil War Trust) During school he was very popular and …show more content…
Samuel Mudd. Mudd later got sent to prison for housing a fugitive. He rowed across the Potomac river to Virginia. There were sings put all around America offering a $20,000 reward for finding a 5 foot tall, Combat built, jet black hair, black eyes, and dark eyebrows, also known as John Wilkes Booth. When he got to Virginia he stayed in Richard Garrett’s barn. Soon after the army came to the barn and asked him to get out. Booth stayed inside the barn, the army shot him and burned the farm to the ground. Booth had laid on the ground for 3 hours before dying when he was only 26. As Booth was dying his final wars were, “Useless, useless”, describing assassinating Lincoln.(History.com) His body was buried in a secret storeroom in a warehouse and the government would not release his body because they thought that the southerners would have a party if they did.(Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil

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