Born: 10-May-1838
Birthplace: Bel Air, MD
Died: 26-Apr-1865
Location of death: Port Royal, VA
Cause of death: Justifiable Homicide
Remains: Buried, Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, MD

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Assassin, Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Abraham Lincoln's assassin

Father: Junius Brutus Booth (actor, d. 1852)
Mother: Mary Ann Holmes
Brother: Junius Brutus Booth, Jr.
Brother: Edwin Booth (actor, b. 1833, d. 1893)
Sister: Asia
Girlfriend: Ellen Starr
Girlfriend: Henrietta Irving
Girlfriend: Lucy Lambert Hale (1864 or 1865)

    High School: St. Timothy's Military Academy, Catonsville, MD

    Murder
    Shot Port Royal, VA (26-Apr-1865)
    Exhumed 1867
    Autopsy
    English Ancestry

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