John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was born with bright dreams and hopes, but fate turns people cruel. He is known as the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln and a supporter of the Southern cause, but in reality he was a person with his life story like any other that brought him to his choices in life. In this passage we will go over Booth’s life and what shaped him as a person.
Childhood and Youth
He was born in a town near Bel Air, born on May 10, 1838 and was raised on a farm. Born as the second youngest of ten siblings who seem to have faded into the background a lot more than the famous assassin and actor. Even though this was the case, John Wilkes Booth came from a whole family of actors. His father, Junius Brutus Booth, was a famous actor with a bad reputation as a drunkard. Booth’s father and his first wife had gotten married already, but he had left her to emigrate to America with Mary Ann Holmes, a flower girl who was also the mother of John Wilkes Booth.
As he grew, Booth showed mental problems at a younger age. He seemed to show egocentric behavior.
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Lincoln’s death was very coincidental. Booth is most known for killing President Lincoln on April 14, 1865 in Ford’s theater. Of course, the assassination was not without previous attempts, such as the attempted kidnapping of Lincoln. Two years before the time of Lincoln’s death sentence, he had seen Booth in a play at Ford’s theater on November 1863. Lincoln had noticed that the young actor stared at him with a very sharp look, but that couldn’t have prepared him for what was to come. On April 14, 1865 John walked up behind President Lincoln and fed the President’s brain a dose of lead. The night before Lincoln’s assassination he dreamt of a funeral in the white house when he asked who died the guard there answered, “ The President sir.” After the encounter, he hopped from the President’s box onto the stage and proceeded to yell “Sic Semper Tyrannis!” which would translate to “So perish