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Who assassinated President Lincoln after the South’s defeat in the Civil War?

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John Wilkes Booth

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On April 14, 1865, as President Abraham Lincoln sat in a box at Ford's Theatre with his wife Mary and two other theatergoers, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, shot the president in the back of the head.

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Answer:

John Wilkes Booth

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I looked it up

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