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assassinated president Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s theater in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Booth was born near Bel Air, MD. His father, Junius Brutus Booth, and his brother Edwin Booth were famous actors, and John himself was one of the most promising perf ....

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.... to my Dr. Samuel H. Mudd. On April 15 a small federal troop set out in pursuit. For 11 days he was protected by sympathetic southerners. Finally on the night of April 25 he was cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, VA. Booth refused to be taken alive and was shot by one of the soldiers, or more likely by his own hand. He died on the morning of April 26. His body was brought back to Washington where it was secretly buried in a warehouse and then buried in a common graveyard for criminals. In 1869 the body was removed to the family plot in Baltimore. became an important part of U.S. history because he was the first person to assassinate a U.S. Pr ....