The Escape of John Wilkes Booth
- Episode aired Dec 5, 2020
- TV-PG
- 2h
Confederate extremist John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC then took refuge in a tobacco barn in the nearby Virginia ... Read allConfederate extremist John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC then took refuge in a tobacco barn in the nearby Virginia countryside. History tells us that Union troops shot him during a standoff there but apocr... Read allConfederate extremist John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC then took refuge in a tobacco barn in the nearby Virginia countryside. History tells us that Union troops shot him during a standoff there but apocryphal accounts are explored that he escaped capture, lived his life under alias, and produ... Read all