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After John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln in April 1865, the infamy associated with the Booth name forced Edwin Booth to abandon the stage for many months. Edwin, who had been feuding with John Wilkes before the assassination, disowned him afterward, refusing to have John's name spoken in his house.
6 de nov. de 2020 · In his decade as a professional actor, 26-year-old John Wilkes Booth played some of the most prestigious theaters in the United States. But the assassin of Abraham Lincoln delivered his final, and ...
John Wilkes Booth was born near Bel Air, Maryland on May 10, 1838, to a prominent acting family. He began his acting career when he was about seventeen years old and was involved in that career at the outbreak of the Civil War. Booth did not enlist in the Confederate Army, but he did harbor strong Southern sympathies.
John Wilkes Booth grimaced in agony as he staggered around inside a tobacco barn near Port Royal, Virginia, on April 26, 1865. His accomplice, David Herold, had already surrendered to troopers of the 16th New York Cavalry surrounding the barn, but the handsome actor who had shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre 12 days earlier refused to give up despite the pain of a fractured leg.
ジョン・ウィルクス・ブース （ John Wilkes Booth, 1838年 5月10日 – 1865年 4月26日 ）は、 アメリカ合衆国 の 俳優 （シェークスピア役者）。. エイブラハム・リンカーン の 暗殺 者として有名。. 南北戦争 の結果に不満を持つ南部連合の支持者であった。. ブース ...
John Wilkes, second youngest of the 10 children of acclaimed English-American actor Junius Brutus Booth, Sr., was born in Harford County, Maryland, just a stone’s throw south of the Mason-Dixon Line. He came from a politically divided family and a politically divided region. In letters written during the war, Booth’s mother Mary Ann ...
7 de abr. de 2019 · Después de dispararle al presidente Lincoln en la cabeza, John Wilkes Booth se arrojó del palco al escenario, donde se representaba la obra Our american cousin de Tom Taylor. Al caer, se fracturó una pierna pero, a pesar del dolor, se dio vuelta, miró al público ‒que no salía de su asombro‒ y pronunció sus últimas palabras sobre las tablas: “Sic semper tyrannis”.[1]
