whitehall
Diamond Member
If you have to ask who JW Booth was you need to exit the history forum. Booth was a successful actor in the mid 19th century and most likely a democrat since Lincoln was a republican. There is no question that Booth shot president Lincoln in a incident that only a lame 19th century actor could think up. He apparently fractured his leg in a dramatic leap to the Ford stage hollering "Sic Temper Tyrannis" and escaped on horseback eluding Federal Troops for about two weeks before being cornered in a tobacco barn in Virginia. The Federals set fire to the barn and Booth was allegedly shot and his body was dragged out of the barn. A doctor who treated Booth could not identify the body and it's possible that Booth had escaped and created a new identity.