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With the help of his accomplice David Herold, John Wilkes Booth fled Washington shortly after assassinating Lincoln. Despite having a Broken leg, Booth was able to avoid the authorities for some time by hiding in the wilderness. On April 26th of that same year, the authorities caught up with Booth on a farm in Virginia. The barn he had been using for shelter was subsequently surrounded by armed men, who blocked Booth's only path to freedom. The men sent to find Booth had orders to capture him alive; nevertheless, he was shot and killed by one of the men, who insisted that god had given him the order to kill Booth.

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