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American Experience
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Season 21
Episode 3
Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.
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Part of the award-winning The Presidents collection.