John Wilkes Booth

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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838April 26, 1865) was an American actor who is most famous for being the man who killed Abraham Lincoln on April 14 1865 in Washington, DC. A very popular stage actor of his time, Booth was a man who liked the Confederacy and he was very unhappy about the way the American Civil War ended.