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John Wilkes Booth Character Review
(Part One)
After the gruesome meeting of assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth had other plans and destinations to get away from the redundant fact that he had shot a president, unwillingly knew that he might have had multiple suspicions on the aftermath of Lincoln’s death. After 12 whole days being hunted by American Forces to elaborate John’s motive for killing the 16th president without asking about the conspirators first. On April 26th, 1865, our suspect was shot dead by an uncommissioned officer named Boston Corbett. I believe Corbett was more into getting the money from Congress after the capture of John Wilkes Booth. Now came the unprecedented part of getting information from Booth’s conspirators. Lewis Powell was mainly the target to end William H. Seward’s life, knowing that Seward had a distinct relationship with Lincoln. The other conspirators had confessed to everything that they knew about Booth’s attempt to assassinate Lincoln. As a result, Lewis Powell, Mary Suratt, George Atzerodt, and David Herold met the tragic fate of them all being executed by a death sentence by being hung without full acknowledgement of their actions, finally died on July 7h, 1865.
Fun Facts about John Wilkes Booth and his killer, Boston Corbett:
- He was also a famous actor.
- He was twenty-six years old at the time of his death.
- It took 12 days to hunt for the assassinator, John Booth.
- Originally John Booth wanted to kill himself to avoid getting questioned from Congress.
- His last words were, as I quote, “Useless, Useless.”.
- He originally tried to kill himself ordinarily by shooting himself with his derringer gun.
- Boston Corbett eventually shot Booth amongst discretion and an excuse as “He was trying to protect his soldiers/men.”
- Boston Corbett was sentenced to an asylum years later and escaped.
- Boston Corbett’s death is still yet to be found of for a description of when it was. (All I do know is that he died on September 1st, 1894. And he escaped the asylum on May 26th, 1888.)
- Boston Corbett was 56 when he escaped and 62 when he died.