John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth
Character Information
Gender/Sex	‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Male ♂ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
Status	‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Deceased ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
Hair Color	Brown
Occupation	Actor
Behind the Scenes
First episode appearance	"Treehouse of Horror IV"

John Wilkes Booth was a stage actor and the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

Apparances

Bart Simpson portrayed Booth in the school's Presidents' Day Pageant, but anachronistically portrayed him as the Terminator.

Homer Simpson once fantasized saving Abraham Lincoln from Booth after Lisa told him to put his power to use.

Non-canon appearances

The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened/existed.

John Wilkes Booth was a member of Flanders the Devil's hand-picked Jury of the Damned, along with Blackbeard, Benedict Arnold, Richard Nixon, Lizzie Borden, John Dillinger, and the starting lineup of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers.

Behind the Laughter

John Wilkes Booth is shown holding a cane. Booth fractured his left calf bone while escaping Ford's Theatre after shooting President Lincoln.

Appearances

• Episode – "I Love Lisa" (mentioned)
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" ("The Devil and Homer Simpson")
• Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" (archive footage)
• Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" (mentioned)
• Episode – "Today, I Am a Clown" (fantasy sequence)

External links

• John Wilkes Booth at Wikipedia