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John Wilkes Booth

American stage actor and assassin

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born
1838
died
1865
age at death
26
known for
actor, writer, stage actor

1838 – 1865

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John Wilkes Booth 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.

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