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He died, 159 years ago today. Twelve days before he died, on April 14, 1865, Booth shot US President Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head: Lincoln died the next morning. An intensive manhunt discovered Booth hiding in a barn on a Virginia tobacco farm, and--under threat from the detectives that they would torch… Continue reading John Wilkes Booth: Twenty-Something
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We… Continue reading Quote of the day–“for us the living”