NOUN
- English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797)
How To Use John Wilkes In A Sentence
- He was assassinated shortly after the end of the war by John Wilkes Booth.
- On the night of 14 April, as he sat with his wife at Ford's Theatre in Washington, he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and rabid Confederate supporter.
- But it was the trendy social-worker Labourite vocabulary I was lamenting, not the facts ... "communities," "religious identities", etc. John Wilkes Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
- If this stunt is a success, think of some of the other celebrations we might be subjected to: Southern Nationalists holding John Wilkes Booth Days complete with reenactments of his most famous moment in a theater, Timothy McVeigh Days with a reenactment of the last moments of the Murrah daycare center, and, of course, Mohamed Atta Days with what horrors I'll leave you to imagine. Jesus Wept
- John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
- President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
- But this story begins with the most famous assassination in history. Abraham Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth kept a diary.
- At the junction of the two stands London's only cross-eyed statue, a memorial to 18th century libertarian John Wilkes.
- John Wilkes writes brilliantly in defence of press freedom to report on Parliament, only to be discredited by a dirty poem written as a young rake.
