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John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865) U.S. actor and the assassin of President Lincoln. "Leaping from the box upon the stage crying out, "Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!" he escaped by the stage door, where a horse was held for him. He had reached Bowling Green, near Fredericksburg, Va., before he was overtaken (April 26). Here he took refuge in a barn and, refusing to surrender, was shot after the barn had been fired." (The New International Encyclopaedia Vol. III (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 538.)
Famous People, Selected Portraits From the Collections of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Samuel V. Daniel III and Barbara O. Natanson, eds., May, 2000, <http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/235_pot.html>Photograph. [No date found on item.] Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-25166
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