The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth

It was the largest manhunt in history--ten thousand federal troops, detectives and police hunted those responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

The conspiracy was vast--an effort to decapitate the United States government at the end of the Civil War.

The manhunt was intense--ending 12 days later in a fiery showdown with the man who pulled the trigger--John Wilkes Booth.

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