Part one of term paper
assassinated president Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s theater in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Booth was born near Bel Air, MD. His father, Junius Brutus Booth, and his brother Edwin Booth were famous actors, and John himself was one of the most promising performers of the time. He entered Lincoln’s private box and shot him in the head ...

Part two of term paper
... Grant, and secretary of state William H. Seward. They managed to only kill Lincoln after shooting Lincoln Booth jump 15 feet down to the stage shouting what some understood as sic semper tyrannis (Thus always tyrants) the Virginia state motto. Booth broke his leg in the jump nonetheless, he escaped to the south where early the next morning he had his leg attend to my Dr. Samuel H. Mudd. On April 15 a small federal troop set out in pursuit. For 11 days he was protected by sympathetic southerners. Fin ...