1, President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

2, He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

3, John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.

4, Herold assisted John Wilkes Booth to the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd, where Booth's broken leg (sustained after jumping from the balcony of Ford's Theatre) was set.

5, Did the President's assassin, John Wilkes Booth,(http:///john wilkes booth.html) act alone or was he a pawn of higher-ups?

6, But this story begins with the most famous assassination in history. Abraham Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth kept a diary.

7, On April fourteenth, eighty sixty-five, Southern sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre. It happened five days after the South surrendered and the Civil War ended.

8, Many in the theater recognized him. He was an actor: John Wilkes Booth.

9, 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth.

10, He was assassinated shortly after the end of the war by John Wilkes Booth.