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John Wilkes Boot(JWB). BY John Delange. John Wilkes Booth.
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John Wilkes Boot(JWB) BY John Delange
John Wilkes Booth • John Wilkes Booth is the one who assonated President Lincoln in Washington D.C fords theater. Booth fled on horseback to southern Maryland. He eventually made his way to a farm in rural northern Virginia he was tracked down and shot by Union soldiers 12 days later.
John Wilkes Booth • Booth made his acting debut at the age of seventeen in Baltimore. He toured throughout America and soon became one of America's leading actors and was especially acclaimed for the work he did with the Shakespearean company that was based in Richmond.
John Wilkes Booth • John Wilkes booth was born in Maryland in 1838 on may 10th . He was the ninth of ten children born to the famous actor, Junius Brutus Booth. • Disparate the rest of his family, Booth was a ardent of slavery. In 1859 he joined the Virginia militia company that assisted In the capture of brown at Harper’s Ferry.