By then,Lincoln was dead. On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, Southern sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Most had agreed to work with Booth because they believed he planned to kidnap Lincoln, not kill him.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Booth broke his leg when he jumped from the presidential box to the stage at Ford's Theater.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

But none could prove that Confederate President Jefferson Davis or any other southern leader played a part in Booth's plot to kill Lincoln.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Men who knew him confirmed that it was the body of John Wilkes Booth.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

You can see the gun that John Wilkes Booth used to kill the president.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

One was John Surratt. Like Booth,he supported the southern Confederacy during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

I struck boldly." Booth described how and why he had shot the president.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

The investigation produced the names of several people who were friends of Booth.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

But one of them raised his gun and shot Booth in the neck.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

John Wilkes Booth and David Herold ran and hid for six days.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

But John Wilkes Booth did not carry out the assassination alone.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

"Our country," Booth wrote, "owed all her troubles to him.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Booth broke his leg when he hit the stage floor.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

The fire forced Booth to move close to the door.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

The soldiers had been ordered to capture Booth alive.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

They asked him to fix Booth's broken leg.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

He was an actor: John Wilkes Booth.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

John Wilkes Booth carried a notebook.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Booth's body was returned to Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Booth refused to come out.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

my grandmother gave me as a gift, "When I was ten, not a bicycle, not a baseball mitt or a bat, she gave me a framed engraving of the derringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate the president.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

After police allowed a convoy of vehicles to leave the downtown area, officers rounded up scores of lawyers at a toll booth outside of the city, stuffing them into waiting buses.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

And while he said his booth on B.C.Street was not necessarily an advertisement for tourism, he hopes - like others displaying their regions on B.C.Street at these Olympics it will inspire visitors from around the world to one day visit his community.

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