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Presidential Assassinations | Murder for Spoils | 1

American History Tellers

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

In 1865 Union soldiers closed in on the barn where Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirator David Harald were hiding. The motives behind these murderous plots varied but all left a deep mark on American history. This is the first in our four-part series on presidential assassinations Exploring their perpetrators, targets and the fallout few could predict this is episode one murder for spoils.

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