John Wilkes Booth

In 1865 Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was surrounded by federal troops on a farm near Bowling Green, Va. He later was found dying in a barn, the victim of either a suicide or a shooting.
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( Chicago Tribune archive )

In 1865 Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was surrounded by federal troops on a farm near Bowling Green, Va. He later was found dying in a barn, the victim of either a suicide or a shooting.

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