John Wilkes Booth fled to Texas, changed his name to John St. Helen and took a job at a saloon. Clues to his true identity; included his love of quoting Shakespeare ( he was an actor ), he walked with a limp in his left leg ( the leg he broke jumping out of the balcony when he killed the President ), and he made a pre-mature deathbed confession to some Granbury citizens to the fact that he was indeed John Wilkes Booth ( unfortunately he didn't die and decided to flee to Oklahoma ).