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John Wilkes Booth, escaping on horseback from the Ford Theatre in Washington DC after his assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, 14th April 1865. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)
John Wilkes Booth, escaping on horseback from the Ford Theatre in Washington DC after his assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, 14th April 1865. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)