John Wilkes Booth

American stage actor and assassin (1838–1865)

John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. During the American Civil War he served as a Confederate spy; he opposed the then-recent abolition of slavery in the United States. Booth was a noted actor from the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland.

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