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John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor...
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1865
4.14.1865
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
4.15.1865
Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
4.26.1865
Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.