Trivia

At the end of the 1850s he was earning $20,000 a year as an actor, a spectacular amount of money for the time.

Attended Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration and can be seen in the photograph taken of the event.

Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on 4/14/1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. It was the first assassination of a US President.

Had initially planned to kidnap Abraham Lincoln with a group of other conspirators.

Was an accomplished actor who was especially popular among female audience members due to his handsome appearance.

Booth was regarded as superstitious by his own family during the early 1850s. He believed in a prediction told to him by a Romani fortune-teller. She told him that he would have a grand but short life, doomed to die young and to meet a bad end.

Boston Corbett is widely credited as being the Union soldier who fatally shot him when Booth refused to give himself up in the burning barn.

Although it is commonly stated that he broke his leg/ankle in the jump (or fall) to the stage in Ford's theatre (right after he shot the President). Several historians (based on the evidence of his leg being severely broken when he died and managing to escape the theatre) have had the theory that --he did not break it in the jump/fall, he only sprained it and because of that he broke it in something involving his horse later.

After the deed, he leaped to the stage shouting "Sic semper tyrannis.".