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* John Wilkes Booth, actor ; assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, attended St. Timothy's Hall, an Episcopal military academy in Catonsville, from age 13-14
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Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
* 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.
* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
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Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold ( 1865 )
Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.
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The machine, having been inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England.
At Eton, John Vaughan Wilkes, his former headmaster's son recalled, "... he was extremely argumentative — about anything — and criticising the masters and criticising the other boys .... We enjoyed arguing with him.
Scarlett pushes her father into buying Dilcey and her daughter Prissy from John Wilkes, the latter as a favor to Dilcey that she never forgets.
* John Wilkes: Owner of " Twelve Oaks " and patriarch of the Wilkes family, John Wilkes is educated, gracious and loving.
Of these, Booth remained to make his career in the States, fathering the nation's most notorious actor, John Wilkes Booth ( who later assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and its most famous Hamlet, Edwin Booth.
ranging from violent diatribes by John Wilkes, to vulgar jokes and obscene cartoons in the popular press, and the haughty ridicule by intellectuals such as Samuel Johnson that was much resented by Scots.
John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.
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On 25 January 1939, a Columbia University team conducted the first nuclear fission experiment in the United States, which was done in the basement of Pupin Hall ; the members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack.
They purchased a farm near Bel Air in Harford County, Maryland, where John Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children.
Junius Brutus Booth's wife, Adelaide Delannoy Booth, was granted a divorce in 1851 on grounds of adultery, and Holmes legally wed John Wilkes Booth's father on May 10, 1851, the youth's 13th birthday.
Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's two illegitimate actor sons, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, would eventually spur them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
As a boy, John Wilkes Booth was athletic and popular, becoming skilled at horsemanship and fencing.
When family friend John T. Ford opened 1, 500-seat Ford's Theatre on November 9 in Washington, D. C., Booth was one of the first leading men to appear there, playing in Charles Selby's The Marble Heart.
Strongly opposed to the abolitionists who sought to end slavery in the U. S., Booth attended the hanging on December 2, 1859, of abolitionist leader John Brown, who was executed for leading a raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry ( in present-day West Virginia ).
As the Civil War went on, Booth increasingly quarreled with his brother Edwin, who declined to make stage appearances in the South and refused to listen to John Wilkes ' fiercely partisan denunciations of the North and Lincoln.
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John became a painter and illustrator ; Richard was an actor in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and later an Emmy-nominated television director of such shows as The Beverly Hillbillies.
In the late 1950s she shared an exchange which was called " la croisée de deux sillages " (" the crossing of two wakes ") with actor and true-crime author John Gilmore, then an actor in France who was working on a New Wave film with Jean Seberg.
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