Were it not for an event on the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth would be remembered, if at all, as an actor; brother of the more famous Edwin, and son of Junius Brutus — a footnote to the history of American theater. But that night Booth leaped on to the stage of Ford’s theater, Washington DC, shouting "Sic semper tyrannis!" before fleeing. He had just shot Abraham Lincoln.
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