The Escape of John Wilkes Booth (S1, E4) | History's Greatest Mysteries | Full Episode
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Top Comments (10)
My 6th grade teacher was a descendant of John Wilkes Booth. In the 1980s, he swore of John Wilkes Booth lived to be an old man. He knew that as a fact, the whole Booth family knew. As a lesson he told us not everything in our history books was accurate.
Booths ego would not allow him to have faded away in obscurity.
Watch all new episodes of History's Greatest Mysteries on Mondays at 9/8c, and stay up to date on all of your favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at history.com/schedule.
Wheres Maury Povich when you need him.
Things that sound easy in theory, aren’t always easy in practice.
Booth’s escape route roughly parallels parts of modern Route 301, though it doesn’t match it directly.
The guy saying he does not think he could handle the pressure if signing a court document , really this is a man who walked up and shot the president in the head jumped into the stage and spoke a line he wanted his last act on stage to be remembered , so I think he can handle preasure
The crazy thing is... the country isn't that different as it is nowadays.
James Swanson’s book “Manhunt” is an extraordinary work regarding Booth’s escape and death after the Lincoln assassination. Highly recommended!
It's really sad Joanne's mom told her that at such a young age. I don't understand the point in telling a little girl "We're related to this really bad guy that killed this really good guy who was just trying to save all of these people". Even though she's old and has probably forgot about the feeling she felt that day, I'm pretty sure it really messed her up when she started to hear about who John Wilkes Booth was. That was an awful decision for that mother to make in telling her daughter that :(.
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Top Comments (10)
My 6th grade teacher was a descendant of John Wilkes Booth. In the 1980s, he swore of John Wilkes Booth lived to be an old man. He knew that as a fact, the whole Booth family knew. As a lesson he told us not everything in our history books was accurate.
Booths ego would not allow him to have faded away in obscurity.
Watch all new episodes of History's Greatest Mysteries on Mondays at 9/8c, and stay up to date on all of your favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at history.com/schedule.
Wheres Maury Povich when you need him.
Things that sound easy in theory, aren’t always easy in practice.
Booth’s escape route roughly parallels parts of modern Route 301, though it doesn’t match it directly.
The guy saying he does not think he could handle the pressure if signing a court document , really this is a man who walked up and shot the president in the head jumped into the stage and spoke a line he wanted his last act on stage to be remembered , so I think he can handle preasure
The crazy thing is... the country isn't that different as it is nowadays.
James Swanson’s book “Manhunt” is an extraordinary work regarding Booth’s escape and death after the Lincoln assassination. Highly recommended!
It's really sad Joanne's mom told her that at such a young age. I don't understand the point in telling a little girl "We're related to this really bad guy that killed this really good guy who was just trying to save all of these people". Even though she's old and has probably forgot about the feeling she felt that day, I'm pretty sure it really messed her up when she started to hear about who John Wilkes Booth was. That was an awful decision for that mother to make in telling her daughter that :(.