USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Booth was noted for his energetic performances, and for his habit of being a bit of a scene stealer. Following John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859, Booth joined the Richmond Grays, a militia unit, and was in attendance at Brown’s execution.

Detailed explanation-2: -In a letter of December 1864, shortly after Lincoln was elected to a second term, Booth wrote bitterly of the president: “He is standing in the footprints of old John Brown, but no more fit to stand with that rugged old hero-Great God!

Detailed explanation-3: -Among those present at Brown’s execution were Thomas J. (later “Stonewall”) Jackson, then an instructor at Virginia Military Institute, John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, and Edmund Ruffin, who fired one of the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter.

Detailed explanation-4: -Arguably the nation’s most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished actor, southern sympathizer, and likely spy before shooting President Lincoln in April 1865. The ninth of 10 children, Booth grew up outside Bel Air, Maryland.

Detailed explanation-5: -John Wilkes, (born October 17, 1725, London-died December 26, 1797, London), outspoken 18th-century journalist and popular London politician who came to be regarded as a victim of persecution and as a champion of liberty because he was repeatedly expelled from Parliament.