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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. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.
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90 min
2009-02-09
Released
English
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4.5
John Wilkes Booth (Voice)
John Wilkes Booth
David Herold
Young John Wilkes Booth
Himself (Narrator)
Himself
Himself
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