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An Askreddit comment with 2000+ upvotes advances an old claim that John Wilkes Booth escaped and lived the rest of his life in the South under several aliases. What have historians written concerning this theory? Is it plausible?

by /u/chivestheconquerer in /r/AskHistorians

Upvotes: 138

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