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Death in the Theatre

Death in the Theatre

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 Death in the Theatre: Actor John Wilkes Booth transforms Ford's Theatre into a stage for tragedy when he shoots Abraham Lincoln during a comedy performance on April 14, 1865. Driven by Confederate sympathies and theatrical vanity, Booth believes he's avenging the South, but his bullet robs America of the one leader who might have healed the nation's wounds through reconciliation rather than revenge.

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