John Wilkes Booth
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"John Wilkes Booth" was an American stage actor who Lincoln assassination/assassinated President of the United States/President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th-century Booth family/Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor. He was also a Confederate States of America/Confederate sympathizer, vehement in his denunciation of Lincoln, and strongly opposed the Abolitionism in the United States/abolition of slavery in the United States.

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Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.

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Tell my mother I died for my country. I did what I thought was best.

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