1. David Edgar Herold was an American pharmacist's assistant and accomplice of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14,1865.
17 Facts About David Herold
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David Herold surrendered, but Booth was shot to death by Sergeant Boston Corbett.
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David E Herold was born in Maryland, the sixth of eleven children of Adam George Herold and Mary Ann Porter.
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Adam and Mary were married on November 9,1828, in Washington, DC David Herold was their only son to survive to adulthood.
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David Herold's family was well-off financially and lived in a large brick house at 636 Eighth Street SE in Washington, DC, near the Washington Navy Yard.
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David Herold attended Gonzaga College High School, Georgetown College, Charlotte Hall Military Academy, and the Rittenhouse Academy.
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In 1860 David Herold received a certificate in pharmacy from Georgetown College.
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David Herold then worked as a pharmacist's assistant and as a clerk for a doctor and was an avid hunter.
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David Herold became acquainted with John Surratt while attending Charlotte Hall Military Academy classes in the late 1850s.
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David Herold fled on horseback across the bridge into Maryland, where he met Herold.
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Booth and David Herold went to the home of Samuel Mudd, who set Booth's leg.
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David Herold refused to let the two into his house, and insisted that they stay in a thicket behind the house.
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David Herold brought food, whiskey, and newspapers to Booth and Herold, which is how Booth realized that he wasn't seen as the hero that he longed to be.
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David Herold surrendered, but Booth refused to lay down his arms and was shot by Boston Corbett through a crack in the barn wall.
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David Herold's defense being unsuccessful, Herold was convicted and sentenced to death.
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David Herold was hanged in Washington, DC, on July 7,1865.
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David Herold is played by Troy Acree in Season 4, Episode 2 of Unsolved Mysteries which dramatizes the conspiracy theory that Booth escaped capture and died in 1903.