John Wilkes Booth Short Biography

John Wilkes Booth had a crazy life as an actor, southerner, a criminal. He is know as one of the most notorious assassins in United States History. John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838 in Bel Air, Maryland. His father, Junius Brutus Booth and his mother Mary Ann Booth moved to the U.S. before Booth was born. They were both famous shakespearean actors. John wilkes booth had 9 other siblings. Booth had attended a lot of different schools such as Bel Air Academy and St.Timothy Hall. He was a very creative and athletic student who was usually late to school but focused on his school work. After his father passed away he dropped out of school. In the start of his acting career he did not do very well and was often booed during his performances because he would stutter or forget his lines. He was about to give up being an actor when his already famous brother Edwin told him to keep practicing. He eventually became very good at acting started acting in big cities such as Atlanta, Richmond, and St.Louis. He preferred to be billed as J.B. Wilkes so he was not confused with his family members.
He was a very hard supporter of the confederacy. He was thinking about joining but his mother would refuse to let him go. He was also got very sick at the sight of blood. Since he was born in Maryland which was a border state in the civil war, they didn’t succeed from the union but they still had slavery. One he heard that Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation Booth was furious and realized he had to do something about it. Booth had set up plans about kidnapping the president before and making the North forfeit then they would give Lincoln back.They tried many times to capture Lincoln but usually failed because Lincoln changed his plans at the last