John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, has been purported to have lived in Hood County in the 1870's. Following is an article from a 1935 edition of the Saturday Evening Post entitled John Wilkes Booth On Tour at: http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/BoothJohnWilkesOnTour.htm What do you think? Send me your opinion after reading this article, and I will send your collective responses to our Hood County mailing list next weekend! Thank you, Virginia Hale WebPages Staff Editor Hood County Genealogical Society