John Wilkes Booth

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John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth was the actor who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in Washington DC on 14 April 1865. (AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight)

Both Aaron Eddowes, the would-be Lincoln assassin foiled by the Fifth Doctor in Richmond, Virginia on 9 April 1865, and Will Johnson were known to have mentioned Booth's complicity after the fact. (PROSE: Blood and Hope)