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JOHN WILKES BOOTH

John Wilkes Booth was an American actor and the brother of Edwin Booth. He was born in 1839 and died in 1865. A violent secessionist, on the night of April 14th 1865 he shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington. He was concealed for a time by friends in Maryland, but fled to Virginia where he was caught in a barn and shot dead by his pursuers on April the 26th 1865.
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