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friends, Ulysses Grant, was kidnapped by the conspirators before the play and he hadn't seen his four kids in six months. As people were thinking about it, no one knew if Lincolns bodyguard that was supposed to be protecting him or was apart of John Wilkes Booth's plan. If you think about it, the assassination was a larger conspiracy theory than you think. After being treated so well Abe Lincoln died in nine hours at 7:22 a.m April 15, 1865. Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated. After finding John Wilkes Booth the conspirators, who were apart of Booths plan, were left killed.
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The superintendent of the Washington Metropolitan police was attending the performance and immediately began investigating. Since the plan was to kill

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