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On the evening of 14 April 1865, Abraham Lincoln is in a theater in Washington. John Wilkes Booth enters his box and discharges a pistol in his head. The President died the next morning. Booth's intention was to "avenge the South", which had just lost the Civil War. The assassin and his accomplices are at large, but their names are known. Posters offering rewards for their arrest were issued. Th…