20 Events During the Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth was nearly as well known as the man, he had just shot President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, In one of history's most melodramatic moments, he leaped from the Presidents box to the stage, brandishing a bloodied bowie knife, and exited stage right. Some reported he shouted, Sic Semper Tyrannis (thus always to tyrants the motto of Virginia, as well as Brutus's words to Caesar as he stabbed him) as he made his hasty exit. Whether he did or not, it was his last performance before an audience. For what remained of his life he would be on the run, the most wanted man in America.

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