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John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838 on a farm near Bel Air, Maryland. He was the 9th of 10 children and one of the more remembered ones (John Asia and Edwin). His family was of British origins, they had moved there in 1821. John Wilkes Booth attended private schools all his life as a child and was enrolled in a Quaker boarding school. When he got older he went to St. Timothy's Hall, an Episcopal military …

…Booth, someone at the back of the barn lights some straw and fire spreads throughout the structure. Booth at first moves towards the fire, then turns and hops towards the door. A shot rings out fired by Sergeant Boston Corbett. Booth falls, paralyzed. Carried to the porch of the farmhouse, Lincoln's assassin lingers between life and death finally succumbing around seven in the morning. Booth was either shot or committed suicide. He died on April 26, 1865.