Multiple choice general knowledge history The famous personality assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe is…. John F Kennedy Martin Luther King Jr. Lord Mountbatten Abraham Lincoln Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself D Correct answer Explanation John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in 1865. JFK was killed by Oswald, MLK by James Earl Ray, and Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA in 1979.