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John Wilkes

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English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797)

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As Mudd pondered his alternatives, he was introduced to someone who said he might be interested in buying his property, the 26-year-old actor John Wilkes Booth. Source: Internet

Abraham Lincoln died 153 years ago today at Ford’s Theater, cut down by the rabidly pro-slavery actor named John Wilkes Booth. Source: Internet

John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, is surrounded by federal troops near Port Royal, Va., and killed. Source: Internet

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2006, p. 150-154 Significance Raoul Walsh as John Wilkes Booth Released in 1915, The Birth of a Nation has been credited as groundbreaking among its contemporaries for its innovative application of the medium of film. Source: Internet

The medical history museum in Philadelphia is notorious for housing oddities like slides of Einstein’s brain, the conjoined livers of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker, and thoracic tissue from Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Source: Internet

The lock of hair was removed during Lincoln's postmortem examination in April 1865 after he was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Source: Internet

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