John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939. Another coincidence that is no coincidence because it's plain wrong: Booth was born in 1838, not 1839. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another "coincidence" that is both inaccurate and superficial. Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre of the type where live stage shows are held, then fled across state lines before being trapped and killed in a tobacco shed several days later.