• His parents were vegetarians … and abolitionists

  • His grandfather was part of the Underground Railroad

  • Actor (along with his father and two brothers)

  • Lincoln actually sent him an invite to the White House, but Booth never answered

  • Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

  • His thorax is on display at the Mütter Museum, along with Grover Cleveland’s tumor, a bit of Charles Guiteau’s brain, and Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall’s bladder stones

John Wilkes Booth
Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

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