John Wilkes Booth
Born | May 10, 1838 |
Hometown | Bel Air, Maryland, U.S. |
Height | 5'8" (1.73m) |
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Stage Fright: Hitchcock thriller makes theatre a crime scene
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US inaugurations: High drama and sore losers
Outgoing US President Donald Trump will be far from the first to boycott his successor Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday -- but his absence will be the first since 1869.
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BBC presenter Lucy Worsley apologises for using n-word in history programme
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'It's a deliberate strategy': Trump uses civil war as culture war in bid to beat Biden
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Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro review – how the bard found his greatest stage
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