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apr 14, 1865 - Lincoln's Assasination

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While president Lincoln was viewing a production of Our American Cousin at Ford theater he was shot by a well known actor, John Wilkes Booth. Booth was a confederate sympathiser still angry about the outcome of the war. The assassination came only four days after General Lee surrender.

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apr 14, 1865
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~ 161 years ago

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