John Wilkes Booth

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Written By Heather Rogers, presidential doodler

  • 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, presidential doodler

I’ve read at least one book about every U.S. president, never tire of shoehorning presidential trivia into conversations, and am basically an expert at hiding mistakes in my sketchbooks.

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