Wilkes was quite right about one thing.

Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

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.

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.

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.

The idea of microprogramming was introduced by Maurice Wilkes in 1951 as an intermediate level to execute computer program instructions.

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.

MAD magazine created a movie satire, " Groan With the Wind " ( 1991 ), in which Ashley Wilkes was renamed " Ashtray ".

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.

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.

He was named after the English radical politician John Wilkes, a distant relative.

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.

As a boy, John Wilkes Booth was athletic and popular, becoming skilled at horsemanship and fencing.

At his request he was billed as " J. B. Wilkes ", a pseudonym meant to avoid comparison with other members of his famous thespian family.

The Fuller Farm Oil company was selling shares with a prospectus featuring the well-known actor's celebrity status as " Mr. J. Wilkes Booth, a successful and intelligent operator in oil lands ", it said.

Hartree and Wilkes estimated that EDSAC was twelve to eighteen months from completion, but said that this timeline could be shortened if additional funding were available.

( Note: Dixon rewrote The Traitor as The Black Hood ( 1924 ) and Steve Hoyle was renamed George Wilkes.

Junior Johnson, seen here in 1985, was a popular NASCAR driver from the 1950s who began as a bootlegging driver from Wilkes County, North Carolina.

McVeigh wore a printed T-shirt with the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Sic semper tyrannis (" Thus always to tyrants ", which was shouted by John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ) and " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants " ( from Thomas Jefferson ).

( December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883 ) was an American physician who was convicted and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Then there was the attempted arrest of John Wilkes for seditious libel against the King in the notorious issue No. 45 of his The North Briton in early 1763.

Wilkes was charged with libel ( accusing the King of lying ), and imprisoned for a short time in the Tower of London.

The " Middlesex radicals " were led by the politician John Wilkes, an opponent of war with the colonies who started his weekly publication The North Briton in 1764 and within two years had been charged with seditious libel and expelled from the House of Commons.

However, Wilkes ’ Hessian brigade, lying nearby in the marshy grass at the water's edge, stood firm and repulsed the Gens d ' Armes with steady fire, enabling the English and Hessians to re-order and launch another attack.

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.

On their return to the UK, Standingford and Thompson visited Hartree and Wilkes in Cambridge, and were favourably impressed with their technical expertise and vision.

The board agreed that, as a first step, Lyons would provide Hartree and Wilkes with £ 3, 000 funding for the EDSAC project, and would also provide them with the services of a Lyons electrical engineer, Ernest Lenaerts.

In 2006, a group of American scientists from The Ohio State University reported evidence for a possible huge meteorite crater ( Wilkes Land crater ) with a diameter of around 500 kilometers in Antarctica.

The list of supposed members is immense ; among the more probable candidates are George Bubb Dodington, a fabulously corpulent man in his 60s ; William Hogarth, although hardly a gentleman, has been associated with the club after painting Dashwood as a Franciscan Friar and John Wilkes, though much later, under the pseudonym John of Aylesbury.

McVeigh was wearing a T-shirt at that time with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the motto: sic semper tyrannis (' Thus always to tyrants '), the state motto of Virginia and also the words shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he shot Lincoln.

When next year the question of general warrants was raised in connexion with the case of Wilkes, Pitt vigorously maintained their illegality, thus defending at once the privileges of Parliament and the freedom of the press.

Subsequent explorations of the region by the British, under George Vancouver, and the Americans, under Charles Wilkes, resulted in many of the Spanish names being replaced with English ones.

Thus in Puget Sound itself, the names given by Wilkes are common and Spanish names rare, while the reverse is true for the San Juan and Gulf Islands ( although the Spanish did not explore Puget Sound as thoroughly as the British and Americans, resulting in fewer Spanish names to start with ).

Williams took the chance to duet with his long-time friend Jonathan Wilkes, Little Voice star Jane Horrocks, Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz, Rupert Everett and actress Nicole Kidman.

On 8 November 2008, Williams was spotted with Field at football match at the Emirates Stadium home of Arsenal, where he was also seen with Gary Barlow accompanied by his two oldest children, and Williams's longtime friend Jonathan Wilkes.

Williams, with the help of friend Jonathan Wilkes, has organised charity football matches called Soccer Aid to raise money for UNICEF UK.

In another significant film, Gone with the Wind, which was also produced by Selznick, Melanie Wilkes ( Olivia de Havilland ) reads aloud from the novel David Copperfield while she waits for the vigilantes to come home from the raid.

He lost a preselection battle with Frank Wilkes for his late father's seat of Northcote in 1957.

( Wilkes 1956: 20 states that a division with a 10 digit quotient required 6 milliseconds.

Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) and roles in Berkeley Square ( 1933 ), Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ), The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Pygmalion ( 1938 ), Intermezzo ( 1939 ), " Pimpernel " Smith ( 1941 ) and The First of the Few ( 1942 ).