Citations:who shot John

English citations of who shot John

1907, Finis Langdon Bates, The escape and suicide of John Wilkes Booth: or the first true account of ..., page 166:
And it was here in this crib that Boston Corbett, against orders, shot and killed the man supposed to be John Wilkes Booth.
1914, Byron Berkeley Johnson, Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett: with personal recollections of each ..., page 9:
A recent imperfect brochure of mine relating to Boston Corbett, who shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassinator of President Lincoln, has brought requests for more of the history of this unique character.
2006, John Chandler Griffin, Abraham Lincoln's execution, page 297:
For a hundred and forty years now historians have been bedeviled by the question: Just who shot John Wilkes Booth?

1994, Charlotte Watson Sherman, Sisterfire: Black womanist fiction and poetry, page 268:
"You come waltzin' in here after twenty years looking like who-shot-John-last-night, with your roses and your memories and your bullshit story?
2005, Martha Southgate, Third girl from the left, page 20:
You can't be runnin' around lookin' like who-shot-john-what-for-and-don't-do-it-again.
2008, Carleen Brice, Orange Mint and Honey, page 6:
You would think that since I was sitting in front of him in dirty, rumpled clothes and a bandanna on my head, looking like "Who shot John? as my old hairdresser Belinda used to say

2021, James McBride, Deacon King Kong: A Novel, Penguin (→ISBN), page 130:
“I ain't come here to sit around talking all this who-shot-John nonsense. I come here,” he said, glaring at Hot Sausage,“ to talk to a certain boiler man about my umpire suit, which I put up in his boiler room.
(Can we date this quote?) Amalgamated Transit Union. Convention, Proceedings of the Convention
(Applause) You know, when I sit across the table and listen to managers tell me about who shot John back somewhere who didn't get a wage increase, didn't get 3 percent or 5 percent or whatever, I don't want to hear that nonsense.

2002, African Voices
[…] women who carry trouble like a bone / tall tales and who shot john about other women / lying women / women who sneaky pete at the backdoor and cheat in the frontroom […]
2009, Alan Ashley, The Tribulations 33 Years Latter: Inspired by T.H.E. H.O.L.Y. B.I.B.L.E.!, AuthorHouse (→ISBN), page 238:
... that I didn't give a who shot John about that dumb old car/Cutlass. Because I use to straight up and down bust it up myself. However, Click, he wasn't trying to hear it, nor did he understand how I FELT.