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Booth is born John Wilkes Booth in Bel Air, Maryland. He is one of nine children. His father is an actor named Junius Brutus Booth.
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Booth attended St. Timothy's Military Academy at age 13. here, he met Samuel Arnold (left) and Michael O'Laughlen, both of whom would later become involved in Booth's attempt to kidnap and, later, murder Lincoln.
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Following his father's death, John Wilkes Booth drops out of Military school. He is 14 at the time.
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Booth does his first performance. He fails miserably. However, this doesn't become a streak.
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In 1859 Booth was an eyewitness to the execution of John Brown. Brown was a rebel against slavery, and had started a riot in Kansas.
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A war between the North and the South, a storm brewing for many years, finally began to downpour. The first shots are fired by the confederates at Fort Sumter.
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The infamous theater is opened and John Wilkes Booth performes on opening night. And who is the V.I.P. in the balcony seat? Abraham Lincoln himself.
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General Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. This caused the end of the bloody, four year war. It also pushed Booth to make his move and Kill the president.
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John Wilkes Booth shoots president Lincoln in the back of the head in Ford's theater. The president dies the following morning.
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On April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is shot in the burning barn that was his safehouse, at 26 years old. He is buired next to his family in an unmarked grave.
