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John Wilkes Booth bornJohn Wilkes Booth diedUnsuccessful Baltimore theatricalacclaimed on a tour of the Deep Southtaking a turn as the lead in a production of William Shakespeare’s Richard III in New York Cityvolunteer in the Richmond militia that hanged the abolitionist John Brownstarted planning for the assassination of Abraham LincolnBooth learned that Lincoln was gonna be at Ford's Theatre$100,000 bounty for John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth, and David Harold (a misspelling of Herold)Booth started his stage careerarrested for making anti-goverment remarksPeriods
recruited several coconspirators, and throughout the winter of 1864–65
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