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John Wilkes Booth
Definition
- American stage actor and Civil War southern sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth was born in Bel Air, Maryland. On April 14, 1865, he shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Booth, John Wilkes]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/John_Wilkes_Booth
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