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I am John Wilkes Booth. I already knew that he was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln and that he was a famous actor. I wondered a lot of things while researching about him. I wondered why his family had really not kept an eye on him. His family lost contact with him and they didn't really do much to find him. I also wondered why he had yelled "Sic Semper Tyrannis" which means the "Thus always to tyrants." Was he saying that Lincoln was a tyrant? His life really is a mystery. He is a suspected member of the KGC the Knights of the Golden Circle. It was a secret Confederate group that supported slavery and supposedly collected and hid gold to support another Civil War.


 * Why did Booth choose to kill Lincoln at Ford's Theater?**

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 * Primary Sources**
 * [|Booth's Diary]
 * [|The Capture of John Wilkes Booth]
 * [|Booth's Final Moments and Positive Indentification of his Body]
 * [|Accounts from Acomplices, Friends, and Enemies]
 * [|Booth's Capture]

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 * [|Photo of John Wilkes Booth]
 * [|Photo of Booth's Diary]
 * [|Booth's Death]
 * [|At the Assassination]
 * [|Anti-Lincoln Quote]
 * [|From a letter to Brother-in-law]