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After he killed Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth became the subject of the greatest manhunt in American history. Troops caught up with him not long after the assassination, and he himself was shot and killed in a Virginia tobacco barn.

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He was shot and killed by the authorities about 12 days (April 26, 1865) after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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He didn't have one. He died before put to trial.

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no he was shot several days after lincolns assassination

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He never lived to be put on trial, as he himself was murdered by Boston Corbett.

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