The #QuebecConnection to the #AbrahamLincoln #assassination involves #Montréal serving as a safe haven & #OperationalBase for #Confederate agents in 1864–65
#JohnWilkesBooth met with these #agents in #Montreal in October’64, & #conspirator #JohnSurratt fled to #Québec
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#JohnWilkesBooth shot Abraham Lincoln #OnThisDay in 1865, one of the most heinous crimes in American history; while there are certainly legitimate criticisms of him, he led the country through the #CivilWar, restored the Union & abolished #slavery...
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#OnThisDay in 1865 famous actor and southern sympathizer #JohnWilkesBooth abandoned his plan to kidnap #AbrahamLincoln in favor of straight up murder.
#AbrahamLincoln was shot in the head by actor and #Confederate sympathizer #JohnWilkesBooth on #ThisDayInHistory in 1865, who leapt down to the stage crying out "#SicSemperTyrannis." With the #CivilWar newly won, Lincoln was taking an evening off to enjoy a show at #FordsTheatre.
"Now he belongs to the ages."
🦅🇺🇸 #OTD in #History 14 April 1865, #JohnWilkesBooth assassinated US President #AbrahamLincoln, shooting him in Ford's Theatre. #Lincoln would cling to life until passing away at 7.22am the next day.
#OnThisDay in 1865, #JohnWilkesBooth assembled a group of confederate sympathizers at a Maryland boarding house with a plan to kidnap #AbrahamLincoln!
Or an assassin.
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🇺🇸 #OTD in #US #History 4 March 1865, #AbrahamLincoln was inaugurated for his second term as US President. In the picture below, you can see #Lincoln giving his speech as #JohnWilkesBooth, the man who would shoot him dead 14 April 1865 at Ford's Theatre, watches from above.
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🔴 John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865) was a 19th-century American stage actor who assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865.
📝 Article by Harrison W. Mark.
📷 Images by J.W. Black & John G. Case, Alexander Gardner, Currier & Ives and Frank Leslie.
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Names that live on…
My pal Wes getting some good notices for his latest board game.
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#monologues #theatre #acting #actors #plays #theatrehistory #americancivilwar #americanhistory #historicalfiction #edwinbooth #johnwilkesbooth #darindahms #shakespeare #hamlet #juliuscaesar #self-published #drama #performance #soloshow #romeoandjuliet #kinglear #tourdeforce
#Baltimore theatre goers, you might like this. I hear it's amazing. #JohnWilkesBooth
Sorry that #Maryland would be too far to go. Hope it comes to my state!
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rehearsal pictures (2016)
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#Theatre #CommunityTheatre #Offstage #Rehearsal #MusicalTheatre #Assassins #Sondheim #OldWork
#JohnWilkesBooth #SaraJaneMoore
An alternate view of the execution, taken from the roof of the Arsenal
All four were hanged in the Old Arsenal Penitentiary. Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the United States government. As if the execution wasn't historic enough!
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THIS DAY IN #HISTORY, July 7, 1865:
⚖️ Four co-conspirators of #JohnWilkesBooth in the #assassination of Pres. Abraham #Lincoln face execution. They were convicted by a military tribunal of conspiring with Booth in a Confederate kidnapping plot that turned to murder.
📸 Library of Congress
#justice
Happy Birthday John Wilkes Booth. (RIP) #HappyBirthdayJohnWilkesBooth #JohnWilkesBooth #Birthday #RestInPeace #RIPJohnWilkesBooth #Legend #Legends
Comic book cover depicting the final moments of John Booth, the man who killed Abraham Lincoln
#OnThisDate in 1865 #JohnWilkesBooth was shot and killed in Port Royal, VA.
"I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but I must fight the course. Tis all that's left to me."
🎭 #JohnWilkesBooth, American stage actor and assassin of US President #AbrahamLincoln, was shot and killed #OTD 26 April 1865, aged 26, by Union soldier Boston Corbett.
Lincoln shot
#JohnWilkesBooth shot #AbrahamLincoln at #FordsTheater in Washington, D.C. #OnThisDay in 1865; he was the one indisputably great US president — he'd restored the Union & abolished #slavery — & his assassination was a tragedy & a disaster for the country...
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"Now he belongs to the ages."
🦅🇺🇸 #OTD in #History 14 April 1865, #JohnWilkesBooth assassinated US President #AbrahamLincoln, shooting him in Ford's Theatre. #Lincoln would cling to life until passing away at 7.22 am the next day.
#OnThisDate in 1865 actor #JohnWilkesBooth met with a group of men to plot the kidnapping of #AbrahamLincoln in the hopes of using him as a bargaining chip to help the failing #Confederacy and preserve #slavery.
My pal Wes co-designed this new board game that just got a great review.
#boardgames
#abrahamlincoln
#johnwilkesbooth
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🇺🇸 #OTD in #US #History 4 March 1865, #AbrahamLincoln was inaugurated for his second term as US President. In the picture below, you can see #Lincoln giving his speech as #JohnWilkesBooth, the man who would shoot him dead 14 April 1865 at Ford's Theatre, watches from above.
