John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. During the American Civil War he served as a Confederate spy; he opposed the then-recent abolition of slavery in the United States.
- Occupation
- actor, writer, stage actor
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 10, 1838
- Died
- April 26, 1865
