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	Junius Brutus Booth biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Junius Brutus Booth (May 1, 1796–November 30, 1852) was an actor and father of John Wilkes and Edwin Booth.
		Booth emigrated to the United States in 1821, settling near Bel Air, Maryland on a farm he called "Tudor Hall." He then embarked upon a thirty-year acting career that made him famous throughout the country.
		Booth traveled to such cities as Baltimore, Boston and New York; he was particularly acclaimed in New Orleans due to his ability to perform in French.
	junius-brutus-booth.biography.ms (355 words)

	John Wilkes Booth
		Junius was one of the most famous actors on the American stage; after he died in 1852 the poet Walt Whitman wrote, "There went the greatest and by far the most noble Roman of them all."
		Booth actually attended Lincoln's second inauguration on March 4, 1865 as the invited guest of his secret fiancée Lucy Hale (Lucy's father John Hale was Lincoln's minister to Spain).
		Booth then leapt to the stage, breaking his leg in the process, and fled to the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated the broken leg.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_wilkes_booth.html (677 words)

	Edwin Booth (1833-1893)
		BOOTH, EDWIN [THOMAS] (1833-1893), American actor, was the second son of Junius Brutus Booth, and was born in Belair, Maryland, on the 13th of November 1833.
		The three Booth brothers, Junius Brutus (1821-1883), Edwin and John Wilkes (1839-1865), had played together in Julius Caesar in the autumn of the previous year--the performance being memorable both for its own excellence, and for the tragic situation into which two of the principal performers were subsequently hurled by the crime of the third.
		Edwin Booth did not reappear on the stage until the 3rd of January 1866, when he played Hamlet at the Winter Garden theatre, the audience showing by unstinted applause their conviction that the glory of the one brother would never be imperilled by the infamy of the other.
	www.theatrehistory.com /american/booth001.html (963 words)

	A History of John Wilkes Booth
		However, J. Wilkes Booth (as he was known professionally) led a very prominent life as an actor in the years preceding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
		Booth was frequently seen in the company of many women, and in one passage author Samples wrote that Booth often "lounged" in the arms of Ellen Starr, who was in Washington at the time of the Lincoln assassination.
		Booth carried with him a letter of introduction from the Confederates, with whom he had conferred, addressed to Dr. William Queen of Charles County, Maryland.
	www.nps.gov /foth/booth.htm (1090 words)

	Junius Brutus Booth
		Booth's brother-in-law, the celebrated comedian John S. Clarke, was his partner in the management of the Winter Garden theatre, and they associated with themselves an old journalist and theatrical agent, William Stuart (real name, Edmund O'Flaherty), formerly of Galway, Ireland, but then an exile.
		Booth's theatre had a career of thirteen years, and its stage was adorned with some of the grandest pageants and graced by the presence of some of the most renowned actors that have been seen in this century.
		Booth's theatre was almost invariably a prosperous house" but it was not economically managed, and for this reason, and this alone, it eventually carried its owner into bankruptcy.
	www.famousamericans.net /juniusbrutusbooth (3171 words)

	Court TV Library
		Kristin Booth Rathbun is the daughter of Petitioner Lois White Rathbun, and, therefore, the great-great-great niece of John Wilkes Booth.
		Of course, as stories have circulated throughout the decades of Booth's escape so, too, has it been alleged that children were sired by the assassin and that their descendants continue to live today.
		Booth also identified the photograph and mummy, both of which are described in further detail herein, as that of John Wilkes Booth.
	www.courttv.com /archive/legaldocs/newsmakers/booth.html (6166 words)

	Booth
		Booth and Cleese were married from 1971), from their decade-long marriage.
		Junius Brutus Booth Junius Brutus Booth (Edwin Booth.
		Wayne Booth Wayne Booth is a Professor Emeritus of English at the literary criticism.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/booth.html (349 words)

	Articles - John Wilkes Booth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Booth's family was from Maryland, a border state which remained loyal to the Union during the war despite a slaveholding population that was strongly sympathetic to the Southern cause.
		Booth was pursued by Union soldiers through Southern Maryland and across the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers to Richard Garrett's farm, near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia.
		Booth was dragged from the fire and he died on the porch of the farmhouse.
	www.poncier.com /articles/John_Wilkes_Booth (2461 words)

	AllRefer.com - Junius Brutus Booth (Theater, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		An imposing tragic actor with a full, rich voice and a rugged grandeur, Booth had an erratic personal life complicated by intemperate habits.
		excelled as a theatrical manager, while Edwin Booth surpassed his father as an actor.
		A third son was the assassin of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Booth-Ju.html (223 words)

	John Wilkes Booth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1864 Booth devised a scheme to kidnap Abraham Lincoln in Washington.
		Booth decided to carry out the deed on 17th March, 1865 when Lincoln was planning to attend a play at the Seventh Street Hospital that was situated on the outskirts of Washington.
		Booth, to seek any information from me at all; I know who you are and what are your intentions." He hesitated some time, but finally said he would make known his views to me provided I would promise secrecy.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWbooth.htm (2381 words)

	THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT
		Booth conceives a plan to kidnap Lincoln in hopes of ending the war favorably for the South, or at least, procuring the release of Confederate prisoners of war.
		Booth's initial plot to kidnap Lincoln is thwarted when the President changes his plans and does not attend a performance at Campbell Hospital on the outskirts of Washington DC.
		Booth refuses to surrender and is killed -- shot through the neck as he tries to escape the burning barn.
	alt.tnt.tv /movies/tntoriginals/lincoln/tl-booth.html (456 words)

	Biography and Images of John Wilkes Booth, Assassin of Abraham Lincoln
		John Wilkes Booth was the ninth of ten children born to the famous, eccentric, and hard-drinking actor, Junius Booth.
		Booth's plans were foiled, however, when the President changed his plans and decided instead to speak to the 140th Indiana Regiment and present a captured flag.
		Booth then turned to plan to kidnap the President at a future performance at Ford's Theatre, where the actor had several friends, but the plan failed to win the support of some of his co-conspirators, who dismissed it as infeasible.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/booth.html (1137 words)

	Edwin Booth Biography / Biography of Edwin Booth Main Biography
		Edwin Booth (1833-1893) was one of America's greatest tragic actors, introducing into his characterizations an artistic sensitivity and completeness that replaced the bombast of earlier times.
		Booth modestly continued his training in a variety of major and minor roles, first in California and later in the South.
		Booth had earlier made a gift of his home to the acting profession, and it was there, at the Players Club in New York City, that he died.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/edwin-booth (657 words)

	Surratt House Museum/John Wilkes Booth/Abraham Lincoln/Civil War/Assassination/Surratt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Booth's great-grandfather and great-grandmother were married on February 15, 1747, at St. George's Chapel, Hyde Park Corner, London.
		Junius Brutus Booth was born in 1796 and married Adelaide Delannoy in May of 1815.
		Junius managed to keep his first wife and son in the dark about his Maryland family for 25 years--until his son by Adelaide, Richard, came to America in the late 1830's and discovered the truth.
	www.surratt.org /su_jwb.html (488 words)

	booth
		John Wilkes Booth was born May 10, 1838 to one of the United States' most distinguished acting families of the nineteenth century.
		Booth was in demand as an actor throughout the Civil War.
		Booth was even a volunteer in the Richmond militia that hanged Abolitionist John Brown in 1859.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/projects/projects98/mcilwainp/booth.html (745 words)

	The Booths of Harford County
		John Wilkes Booth followed his father and older brother onto the stage and was well on his way to establishing a career as illustrious as Edwin's.
		Whatever brought Junius here; there is little doubt that the beauty and serenity of the area appealed to his love of the natural world and his desire for a retreat from the turmoil of the theatrical world.
		Junius purchased a log cabin located on a neighbor's farm and had it moved to a location near a spring on his new farm.
	www.harfordhistory.net /Booths.htm (965 words)

	The Plot to Kill Lincoln
		John Wilkes Booth, said by his brother and a sister, Asia, to be eccentric, strived to escape his father's shadow.
		Joining Booth in the bizarre plot were Mary Surratt, a widow who ran the boardinghouse where most of the planning took place, and her son John, a Confederate spy and agent.
		Booth, Herold, and Paine were in the audience to hear Lincoln discuss his plans for Reconstruction, which included new rights for fls.
	www.angelfire.com /my/abrahamlincoln/Plot.html (708 words)

	Stage Preview: 'Booth' peeks behind curtain at famed acting brood
		Although his father had founded the family tradition, surviving patriarch Junius Brutus Booth was regarded in Britain and the United States as among the world's leading Shakespeareans.
		His eldest son, Edwin Thomas Booth, is still considered America's greatest actor of the 19th century, while his youngest, Junius Booth Jr., remains little more than a footnote.
		History records that Junius Booth -- despite bouts of depression and frequent abuse of liquor -- provided a comfortable home for his family and lavished his children with affection.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/19991109booth2.asp (452 words)

	John Wilkes Booth
		John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838 on a small farm known as Tudor Hall, located a few miles outside of Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland.
		Although Booth was considered a good actor, he never excelled to the level of talent possessed by his father, nor his brother Edwin, who all worked together in one production of Julius Caesar.
		Booth believed this was one way to increase the deteriorating ranks of Rebel soldiers.
	members.cox.net /quarter_4/Lincoln_Assassination/John_Wilkes_Booth.htm (980 words)

	John Wilkes Booth
		Junius was one of the most famous actors on the American stage although he was an eccentric personality who had problems with alcohol and spells of madness.
		In 1859 Booth was an eyewitness to the execution of John Brown, the abolitionist who had tried to start a slave uprising at Harpers Ferry.
		Booth is known to have confided to his actor friend Samuel Knapp Chester, "What an excellent chance I had to kill the President, if I had wished, on inauguration day!" Booth was seen with Lucy at the National Hotel on the morning of the assassination.
	home.att.net /~rjnorton/Lincoln72.html (2479 words)

	infoZine - Tudor Hall In Your Theatre History - Rick Mundy - 9905 - Kansas City
		Junius Brutus Booth was one of the first great figures of the American stage.
		His son, Edwin Booth, is likewise considered the greatest American tragedian of the second half of the nineteenth century.
		Junius Brutus Booth had another son who was a notable actor, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
	www.infozine.com /z9905/a-rm-tudor.shtml (409 words)

	John and Booth by Dylan S.
		John was impatient with the business and gave it to Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., his brother, a successful theater manager, before it had time to mature.
		He did not recognize Booth because John was wearing fake whiskers and Mudd was used to late night patients.
		There Booth gained many supplies and moved on to a site in the swamp where he stayed from April 16th to the twenty-first, possibly from malaria.
	www.brooklynexpedition.org /ps321/booth/dylans.htm (1227 words)

	Edwin T. Booth Papers, 1860-1874
		Edwin Thomas Booth (1833-1893) was born to the stage.
		His father, Junius Brutus Booth was of a notable English theatre family and well established both in America and Europe.
		Signatures and notes of Agnes Booth, wife of Junius B. Booth Jr., and performer in both La Femme de Feu and Cleopatra, along with those of her son, Sydney, appear on many of the scripts and prompt books.
	www.wsulibs.wsu.edu /holland/masc/finders/cg587.htm (710 words)

	Across America with 'Junius Brutus Booth' by Elizabeth Robins
		Booth talks of his Sandwich Island expereince as Lessee of the Royal Hawaian Theatre, of how the natives took 'Richard the Third,' and of his travels in Australia and the South Sea Islands.
		Booth refers to his anachronistic dressing of some of his rôles, the more wonderful in that he costumed such a part as 'Don Felix' so correctly, as shown by his portrait in a medallion over our heads in the rechristened J.B.B., formerly 'the Garrick.' Mr.
		Booth tells us of Helen Hunt's lonely grave on a mountain top near Manitou, Colorado, and this Southern California seems full of her memory.
	www.jsu.edu /depart/english/robins/docshort/acramjbb.htm (4504 words)

	Ashland Daily Tidings :: Online Newspaper Edition - Your Community News Source Since 1876.
		Junius was a Unionist; John Wilkes an ardent Confederate.
		Junius once taunted his brother by asking why he did not enlist in the rebel army and fight for the south.
		Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head in Ford's Theater on the night of April 14, 1865.
	www.dailytidings.com /2004/0712/071204c1.shtml (531 words)

	Booth, John Wilkes on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For some six months in 1864-65 Booth laid plans to abduct the president and carry him to Richmond, a scheme that was frustrated when Lincoln failed to appear (Mar. 20, 1865) at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait.
		A bust of Abraham Lincoln is on display at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.
		A bedroom across the street from Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., is where Lincoln was taken after being shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Booth-J1o.asp (738 words)

	Booth Family Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		"Edwin Booth and Jervis McEntee: New Materials at the University of Tulsa and the Archives of American Art." Photocopy of an article by L. Terry Oggel.
		JOHN WILKES BOOTH. OILMAN. Ernest C. Miller. (The Exposition Press: New York, 1947.) Photocopy of a biographical account.
		Booth's Appeal to the Public." 26 Feb 1817.
	www.lib.utulsa.edu /Speccoll/booth000.htm (274 words)

	John Wilkes Booth
		Booth was the son of the actor Junius Brutus Booth, born in Bel Air, Maryland.
		He was a violent partisan of the cause of the South in the American Civil War and in 1864 organized an unsuccessful conspiracy to abduct President Abraham Lincoln.
		The troops set fire to the building, and Booth probably died during the ensuing gun battle or may even have shot himself.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/civwar/booth.html (262 words)

	John Wilkes Booth
		Unlike the rest of his family, Booth was an ardent Confederate sympathizer.
		For some six months in 1864–65 Booth laid plans to abduct the president and carry him to Richmond, a scheme that was frustrated when Lincoln failed to appear (Mar. 20, 1865) at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait.
		Junius Brutus Booth - Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796–1852, Anglo-American actor.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0808311.html (497 words)

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