What is John Wilkes Booth?
[[File:John Wilkes Booth.jpg|thumb|right|John Wilkes Booth]] '''John Wilkes Booth''' (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an [[Americans|American]] [[actor]]. He is known for killing [[President of the United States|U.S. president]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next morning. Booth was born in Bel Air, Harford County, [[Maryland]] to [[English people|English]] [[immigrant]] parents. He was a very well-known [[Theatre|stage]] actor. Booth supported the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] during the [[American Civil War]]. He was angry with Lincoln for supporting [[voting]] rights for former [[slave]]s. He also wanted to get Confederate soldiers to keep fighting the war, which was ending. Booth was chased by United States soldiers and killed at a farm in [[Virginia]] twelve days after he shot Lincoln. ==Booth's political activity== Booth became [[Politics|politically]] active in the 1850s. He joined the [[Know-Nothing Party]], a [[political party]] that wanted fewer [[immigrants]] to come to the United States. Booth strongly supported slavery. In 1859, he joined a Virginia company that helped to capture [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]] after his [[John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry|raid on Harpers Ferry]]. Booth watched Brown's [[execution]]. During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Booth worked as a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[secret agent]]. He met with the heads of the [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]], Jacob Thompson and Clement Clay, in [[Montreal]] many times. ==Failed plots against President Lincoln== In the summer of 1864, Booth began making plans to [[Kidnapping|kidnap]] President Lincoln. His plan said that Lincoln would be taken south to [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]], where he would be held until he could be traded for Confederate [[Prisoner of war|prisoners of war]]. Booth recruited friends and Confederate sympathizers to aid him. Eight of these people were later [[Trial|tried]] for killing Li