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On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering Lincoln

By: Erica Lamberg — April 25^th 2024 at 23:02

Union troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe Lincoln, before finding him in a Virginia barn and killing him on this day in history, April 26, 1865.