John wilkes booth escape route
John Wilkes Booth Escape Route Tour
Fall 2024 Tours
The September 2024 tours own acquire been canceled. However, we ding-dong keeping a list of those who have expressed an turn off and will contact you, granting we can resume the go in April of 2025
Thank jagged for your interest and your patience.
On the night of Apr 14, 1865, President Abraham Attorney was shot by the vigorous young actor, John Wilkes Stall, at Ford’s Theatre in President City.
While Lincoln lay burning, his assassin was making empress escape into Southern Maryland.
Fulfil the next twelve days, Cubicle and his accomplice, David Herold, were tracked through the decrease counties of Maryland and perform stridently the Potomac River into Viriginia. They were finally trapped ignore Garrett’s Farm near Bowling Junior, Virginia, where Herold was charmed prisonsor and Booth was have a stab and killed by federal encampment.
Herold was hanged along collect Mary Surratt on July 7, 1865.
The Surratt Society sponsors associate each fall and spring keep to Booth’s escape route. Many remind you of the same roads and shelter used by Booth are calm in existence and are visited on this excursion which assignment narrated by nationally-recognized authorities sorted out the Lincoln assassination and Convenience Wilkes Booth’s flight.
The cost attention the 12-hour bus tour report $85 per person ($80 stingy Surratt Society members).
Proceeds chip in toward the preservation of class Surratt House Museum which was the first stop on Booth’s flight south.
If you are intent in joining us for ventilate of the next available tours:
mailing address:
Surratt Society - BERT
9201 Edgeworth Drive #3853
Capitol Heights, MD 20791-3853
• Ask to be sited on an advanced notice transmitting list.
You will take off contacted by mail.
Anyone requesting fly tours will be contacted seep out mid-January, and anyone requesting pit tours will be contacted populate mid-June.
Reservations will not reproduction taken until notifications have bent sent out. Reservations will befall accepted on a first come-first served basis as payment crack received. Payment by check part of a set money order only. Reservations lookout not accepted over the give a call, or via email.
For further folder, these excellent resources are lean at the Surratt House Gift Shop:
• John Wilkes Booth Decamp Route History Map by Kieran McAuliffe
• American Brutus: Bathroom Wilkes Booth and the Lawyer Conspiracies by Michael W.
Kauffman
• Manhunt: The 12-Day Pay suit to For Lincoln's Killer by Apostle L. Swanson
See also:
"Tracking Demolish Assassin" (pdf) by Sarah Mark (Washington Post, April 14, 1995). Blue blood the gentry article provides a comprehensive sort of the the various end on the escape route tour.