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History's Greatest Mysteries
2020
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History's Greatest Mysteries
The Escape of John Wilkes Booth 1 Season 4 Episode
78 min
2020
7.7
He was the actor whose most famous role was assassinating a president. But was John Wilkes Booth also an escape artist? Did Booth evade justice and live for decades after killing Abraham Lincoln? For the first time, Booth family members share family lore, and what they believe is evidence of the assassin's escape, passed down through generations.
