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Did Abe Lincoln's Assassin Escape? DNA May Solve Mystery

By David LohrDec 23rd 2010 – 2:01PM
Library of Congress

Library of Congress

Descendants of John Wilkes Booth have agreed to exhume his brother's body for DNA testing in an attempt to determine whether the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln escaped capture and eluded justice, as the family has been told. "I'm absolutely in favor of exhuming Edwin," Joanne Hulme, a Booth family historian, told...

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The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to a close.

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