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John Wilkes Booth

Interment Location Visited  
Baltimore, MD July 6, 2015  

Photographed July 6, 2015.
Photographed July 6, 2015.
Photographed July 6, 2015.
Photographed July 6, 2015.

Fast Facts

Born: May 10, 1838 in Bel Air, Maryland

Died: April 26, 1865 in Port Royal, Virginia

Cause of Death: Gunshot Wound

Age: 26

Last Words: “Useless, useless.”

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland

Photographed March 25, 2024.

After he fled the Ford’s Theatre stage, John Wilkes Booth exited through the door to its back alley. There he mounted his rented horse and kicked away the man holding its reigns, Joseph “Peanut John” Burroughs. Booth then bolted out of the alley. The passage is still accessible via F Street NW. Coincidentally, at the time my friend Kelvis and I visited in 2024, the alley’s entry point was next to an escape room company.

Sources Consulted and Further Reading

Kauffman, Michael W. American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies. New York: Random House, 2005.

Swanson, James L. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer. Boston: Mariner Books, 2007.

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