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John Wilkes Booth with brothers Edwin
Booth and Junius Booth, Jr. (from left to right)
in Shakespeare’s
Julius Caesar in 1864.
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The playbill advertising John Wilkes Booth as Pescara in The
Apostate at Ford's Theatre,
Washington, D.C., on March 18, 1865 –
Booth's final acting appearance and where
he would assassinate
Abraham Lincoln the following month.
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Broadside advertising reward for capture of Lincoln assassination
conspirators, illustrated with photographic
prints of John Surratt,
John Wilkes Booth, and David Herold.
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Booth's escape route.
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Photo of the Garrett Farm near Port Royal, Virginia, where John
Wilkes Booth,
the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, died.
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The Historic Site marker on U.S. Route 301 near Port Royal, where
the Garrett barn
and farmhouse once stood in what is now the
highway's median.
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Guns carried by John Wilkes Booth when he was captured/killed, on
display
at Ford's Theatre museum in Washington, D.C.
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Boston Corbett, the Union Sergeant who shot and killed John
Wilkes Booth.