JOHN WILKES BOOTH , MURDERER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN BORN 1838 MAY 10 - 1865 APRIL 26

JOHN WILKES BOOTH , 

MURDERER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

BORN 1838 MAY 10 - 1865 APRIL 26

.ஜான் வில்க்ஸ் பூத் (John Wilkes Booth மே 10, 1838 - ஏப்ரல் 26, 1865) அமெரிக்க நடிகர் ஆவார். ஏப்ரல் 14, 1865 இல் வாசிங்டன், டி. சி. ஃபோர்டு திரை அரங்கில் ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்க ஜனாதிபதி ஆபிரகாம் லிங்கன் படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்டார். அவரைச் சுட்டுக் கொன்றவர் ஜான் வில்க்ஸ் பூத் ஆவார்.[1]

பிறப்பு
ஜான் வில்க்ஸ் பூத் மேரிலாந்தில் இருந்து 19 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டின் பிரபலமான பூத் திரையரங்கு குடும்பத்தில் பிறந்தார். அவர் மாரிலாந்தில் நன்கு அறியப்பட்ட நடிகர் ஆவார். பூத் தன் பெற்றோர்களுக்கு ஒன்பதாவது குழந்தையாக மே 10, 1838 அன்று நான்கு-அறைகள் கொண்ட மர வீடு ஒன்றில் பிறந்தார்.[2]

லிங்கனின் கொலை
ஜான் வில்க்ஸ் பூத் ஒரு கூட்டமைப்பின் ஆதரவாளராக இருந்தார். அமெரிக்காவின் அடிமை முறையை ஒழிப்பதை இவர் கடுமையாக எதிர்த்தார். இக்கூட்டமைப்பினர், துணை ஜனாதிபதியான ஆண்ட்ரூ ஜான்சன் மற்றும் மாநில செயலாளர் வில்லியம் எச். ஸீவார்ட் ஆகியோரையும் கொல்லத் திட்டமிட்டிருந்தனர். ஸீவார்ட் காயங்களுடன் தப்பித்தார். துணை ஜனாதிபதியான ஆண்ட்ரூ ஜான்சனைக் கொலைச் செய்ய இருந்த ஜார்ஜ் அட்ஜேரார்ட் அவரைக் கொல்வதற்கு பதிலாக மது அருந்திவிட்டு சென்றதால் ஆண்ட்ரூ ஜான்சன் தப்பித்தார். சதித் திட்டத்தை நிறைவேற்றுவதில் பூத் மட்டுமே வெற்றிபெற்றார். ஜான் வில்க்ஸ் பூத் லிங்கனின் தலையில் துப்பாக்கியில் சுட்டார். இதில் ஜனாதிபதி ஆபிரகாம் லிங்கன் அடுத்த நாள் காலை மரணம் அடைந்தார்.

ஜான் வில்க்ஸ் பூத் ஜனாதிபதியின் பெட்டியிலிருந்து மேடையில் குதித்தார். அங்கு அவர் தனது கத்தியால் கூட்டத்தினரை அப்புறப்படுத்தி தப்பிச்சென்றார். காரெட்டின் பண்ணையில் பூத் இருப்பதைக் கண்டுபிடித்தனர். ஏப்ரல் 26 ம் தேதி அதிகாலையில், படையினர் காரெட்டின் புகையிலை களஞ்சியத்தில் மறைந்திருந்தவர்களைப் பிடித்தனர். டேவிட் ஹரோல்ட் சரணடைந்தார். ஆனால் பூத் சரணடைவதற்கு மறுத்தார். "நான் வெளியே வந்து சண்டை போட விரும்புகிறேன்" என்றார். வீரர்கள் பின்னர் பண்ணைக்குத் தீ வைத்தனர். பூத் எரியும் களஞ்சியத்தில் உள்ளே நுழைந்தபோது, இராணுவ வீரர் பாஸ்டன் கார்பெட், அவரை சுட்டார். கழுத்தில் காயம் அடைந்த பூத், மூன்று மணி நேரத்தில் மரணம் அடைந்தார். தனது 26 ஆவது வயதில் அவர் மரணமடைந்தார்[3]

New book details John Wilkes Booth's love affairs with nearly two dozen women
The actor was 26 years old on April 14, 1865, when he shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC
Booth then fled to the South, where he was killed 12 days later
When he died, a diary was found on Booth's body that had the pictures of five women he was romantically involved with at the time
Those women included Lucy Lambert Hale (an ambassador's daughter) and actresses Fanny Brown, Alice Gray, Effie Germon, and Helen Western
During his acting career, Booth was also responsible for breaking up two sister acts: Helen Western and her sister Lucille and Henrietta and Marie Irving
Henrietta Irving tried to stab Booth after catching her former lover leaving her sister's room at a hotel in 1861 

John Wilkes Booth didn't kill Abraham Lincoln because he didn't have anything to live for. In fact, he left several women heartbroken when he assassinated the president, and was subsequently killed.  

A new book, John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Love Him, details the 26-year-old actor's love affairs with nearly two dozen women before his history-making gunshot from the presidential box of Ford's Theatre.

According to the author, historian E. Lawrence Abel, Booth was a womanizer who was a certified celebrity in his heyday. 
During the time that Booth worked as an actor, stars would travel the country during the theatre season from fall to spring, spending a few weeks in a city acting in productions with local actors who played stock players, before moving on, according to the New York Post, which previewed Lawrence's book. 

When Booth was killed 12 days after Lincoln's assassination, the photos of five women were found in his diary (pictured above with the other possessions found on his body)

Among one of the most scandalous photos he kept was of Lucy Lambert Hale (pictured), daughter of Lincoln's ambassador to Spain. The two were allegedly secretly engaged 

The four other women whose photos Booth kept in his diary were actresses, including 

Fanny Brown, left, and 

Alice Grey, right 














As an actor of his time, Booth traveled from city to city to perform, so he had girlfriend in every town he visited. Above, the two other actresses whose photos he kept: 

Effie Germon, left, and 



















Helen Western, right

It meant that an attractive young man like Booth struck up relationships with a new woman in every town he visited. 

In fact, at the time of his death, 12 days after he shot President Lincoln in 1865, a diary was found on Booth's body that had the photos of five women in it - including Lucy Lambert Hale, the daughter of Lincoln's ambassador to Spain, who was believed to be his secret fiancée. 

The four other women who Booth kept pictures of were actresses he had performed with across the country including Fanny Brown, Alice Gray, Effie Germon, and Helen Western. 

Western was in one of two sister acts that Booth broke up in 1861, causing jealousy between siblings. 

Helen and her sister Lucille called themselves the 'Star Sisters'. Their act stirred up controversy because they often dressed up as men, in flimsy garments to boot. 

Booth also drove a wedge between two sister acts. One of his lovers, Henrietta Irving, left, tried to stab Booth when she caught him coming out of her sister's room. New York actress Maggie Mitchell, right, kept a lock of Booth's hair even after he killed Lincoln 
Helen, 19, reportedly got intimate with Booth as they performed during a two-week engagement in Portland, Maine - Helen playing Desdemona and Juliet to Booth's Othello and Romeo.   

Their love affair allegedly drove a wedge between Helen and Lucille, who became jealous that Booth preferred her sister and quit their act. The sisters never performed together again. 

That same year, Booth performed in Albany with 28-year-old Henrietta Irving and her sister Marie.  

Booth shot President Lincoln as the Civil War was drawing to a close in April 1865, he then fled to the south but was caught a little less than two weeks later and was shot dead as well. Above, a depiction of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre 

Mourners march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC during President Lincoln's funeral in 1865

Henrietta and Booth had been in a relationship, but then she caught Booth sneaking out of her sister's room at the hotel where they were staying. So she grabbed a dagger and tried to stab him - but only slashed his face. Then she stabbed herself.Luckily, Henrietta survived the incident, but it took her two full years to recover.  

Even after Booth's death, when he became a hated figure in the North, there were still many women who held flames for him, including actress Maggie Mitchell.  

The New Yorker, one of the most successful actresses of her age, held on to a lock of Booth's hair, calling it 'the loveliest hair in the world'.

And when reports emerged of a heavily-veiled woman who sobbed as she visited Booth's body aboard the ship that brought it back to Washington, DC, rumors swirled that it was Hale's father who pulled strings to let her say goodbye to her lover. 

E. Lawrence Abel has written
a new book on Booths' love affairs
 with nearly two dozen women 

Germon was also the sole among Booth's acting colleagues to send condolences to his family after his death.  


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