John Wilkes Booth

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Written By Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

  • His parents were vegetarians … and abolitionists

  • His grandfather was part of the Underground Railroad

  • Actor (along with his father and two brothers)

  • Lincoln actually sent him an invite to the White House, but Booth never answered

  • Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

  • His thorax is on display at the Mütter Museum, along with Grover Cleveland’s tumor, a bit of Charles Guiteau’s brain, and Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall’s bladder stones

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John Wilkes Booth
Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

Heather isn’t a historian, an academic, or an impartial storyteller… but she has read more than one book about every U.S. president. Out of spite. She was dubbed America’s Preeminent Presidential Doodler by one of her favorite authors and she’s been repeating it ever since. When she’s not reading or doodling history books, she’s a freelance graphic designer and illustrator.

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