John Wilkes Booth was a famous stage actor during the Antebellum Era. Despite his theatrical success, he is best remembered for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in 1865. Driven by his support for the Confederacy, Booth hatched plans that escalated from kidnapping to murder. After the assassination, he led authorities on a manhunt, ultimately meeting his own violent end. Here are seven facts about John Wilkes Booth…
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