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Boston Corbett

Crime History

The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln

The strange life of Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

Ernest B. Ferguson The American Scholar Apr 2009 15min Permalink