John Wilkes Booth
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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor who is most famous for being the man who killed Abraham Lincoln on April 14 1865 in Washington, DC. A very popular stage actor of his time, Booth was a man who liked the Confederacy and he was very unhappy about the way the American Civil War ended. He was killed by Union soldiers at a farm in Pennsylvania.