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John Wilkes Booth was born to Junius Brutus Booth Booth and Mary Ann Holmes in Bel Air, Maryland. .He was the 9th of 10 children.
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John attended a quaker-run,milton boarding school for boys in Sparks Maryland. He later attended St.Timothy’s hall until the death of his father.
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Died from a fever aboard a steamboat.
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Debut performance in a play at Baltimore's Charles Street Theatre.
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John Wilkes Booth's acting carreer really started to take off when he joined this company and started to become famous.
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When John Brown was excecuted tensions between the North and South started to increase, pushing us that much closer to a civil war.
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Abraham Lincoln wins the election
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After the attack on Fort Sumpter the Civil War had begun
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A respitory illness took hold of Booth while on tour causing him to take a temporary break from his lead role.
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Booth had a team coordinated to abduct Lincoln on his way to see a play, but his plans were stopped short when Lincoln decided to skip the play and go speak to the 140th Indiana Regiment.
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While President Lincoln, his wife Mary, and Major Henry Rathbone were whatching a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., Booth slipped into their box and shot the President in the back of the head and stabbed Major Rathbone. In his escape, Booth jumped from the box onto the stage, breaking his ankle. However, he still managed to elude capture by Federal officials.
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John Wilkes Booth is the most wanted men in the U.S.A. he has successfully fled into Maryland countryside. He is forced to find a place to rest because his leg is injured and his horse is tired from the journey. He now hides in the house of the physician and Confederate sympathizer Dr. Samuel Mudd.
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The search party was officially sent out immediatly after Lincoln's assassination.
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After being caught in Garett's barn, the building was set on fire. Booth refused to come out, and later shot in the neck.
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders officially ending the Civil War.
