Tag: Ford’s Theater

• On This Day in 1865: The Last Stand of John Wilkes Booth

  John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.   John Wilkes Booth was born into one of America’s most distinguished acting dynasties. He died one of America’s most notorious figures and its first Presidential assassin. On the evening of April 14, 1865, not long after the final surrender of Confederate forces that effectively ended the…

  CrimeScribe

  April 26, 2014

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  Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, assassin, assassination, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate, Derringer, Federal, Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth, Maryland, murder, Potomac, true crime, Virginia, Washington