# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-herold
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:09:15.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-herold"
name: "David Herold"
slug: "david-herold"
description: "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. After the shooting, Herold accompanied Booth to the home of Samuel Mudd, who set Booth's injured leg. The two men then continued their escape through Maryland and into Virginia, and Herold remained with Booth until the authorities cornered them in a barn. Herold surrendered, but Booth was shot to death by Sergeant Boston Corbett. Herold was tried by a military tribunal, sentenced to death for conspiracy, and hanged with three other conspirators at the Washington Arsenal, now known as Fort Lesley J. McNair."
tagline: "Conspirator (1842-1865)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Herold_retouched.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1842-06-16"
deathDate: "1865-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.070144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David Herold (Attentäter)"
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    title: "Ντέιβιντ Χέρολντ"
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    title: "David Herold"
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    title: "David Herold"
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    title: "데이비드 헤럴드"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump