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Thank you. Unlike some other famous presidential assassinations, there is generally no doubt of the identity of Abraham Lincoln's assassin.

He was seen by an entire theater full of witnesses in his leap to the stage, and he was a very famous actor from a family of famous actors.

Both his father and his brothers were famed tragedians, traveling stage actors who performed Shakespeare, and Booth was famous enough

to be recognizable. His motivation for the murder of Lincoln is also apparent and typically unquestioned.

While others in his family, such as his brother Edwin, supported the union cause and refused to perform in the South.

John was vocal in his opposition to the abolitionist cause and his support of the Confederacy.

He felt so strongly about it, in fact, that he became more and more active in political agitation.

When he heard that the notorious abolitionist John Brown was being executed, he donned a military

uniform and snuck in to watch him hang, and to help repel any potential rescue attempt.

After the abolitionist Lincoln's election to the presidency,

which was viewed as a provocation by many Southerners as well as northern supporters of the

Southern cause called Copperheads, he wrote a long speech defending the institution of slavery,

though he never found a good occasion for delivering it.

In 1861, when Southern States seceded from the Union, John Wilkes Booth was putting on a stage

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