150 years ago on this date, April 26, 1865, Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
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John Wilkes Booth, assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. (1865) |
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John Wilkes Booth, assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. (1865) |