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John Wilkes Booth was responsible for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, believed that killing Lincoln would aid the Southern cause and incite rebellion. He shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., leading to the president's death the following day. Booth subsequently fled the scene and was pursued by Union authorities until he was captured and killed on April 26, 1865.