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John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was a very notorious person. Mostly people think about him assassinating Abe Lincoln, but he was a very famous actor and had a very interesting life.
He was born on May 10, 1838, in Bel Air, Maryland, in a log cabin. His parents, Junius Brutus Booth and M ....
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.... He was a "violently pro confederate". He smuggled quinine across enemy lines to the confederates.
Later Booth had a plan. He was going to ransom Abe Lincoln for rebel prisoners. He was also thinking about kidnapping Secretary of State, William H. Seward and Vice President, Andrew Johnson. Then he changed his mind. He was going to murder all of them. He found some people to help him. They were, David E. Harold, Mary Surratt, and a couple of other men. He had a twisted mind.
Booth headed off to Ford's Theater to kill Lincoln while he was watching the play "Our Am ....
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