John Wilkes Booth
1838–1865 · Person
Matinee-idol actor from a Maryland theatrical family, Confederate sympathiser and Lincoln's assassin, shot dead in a Virginia barn.
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- Pickett's Charge (1863)
- Fall of Richmond (1865)
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