John Wilkes Booth, Biography | Ken Burns: The Civil War

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Ken Burns John Wilkes Booth biography assassin Abraham Lincoln presidential assassination Confederate sic semper tyrannis David Herald John Brown Civil War Ford's Theatre Ken Burns America
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History-Social Science
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Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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John Wilkes Booth, Biography | Ken Burns: The Civil War

Learn about the life of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin who murdered President Abraham Lincoln. An accomplished actor and a Southern sympathizer, Booth shot the president in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.
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