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John Wilkes Booth

American stage actor and assassin (1838–1865)

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Oct 6, 2025
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Democrats (as a party) were behind the assassinations of Lincoln, JFK, MLK, and also created racial terror systems (e.g. KKK, Jim Crow). true or false

The claim that *“Democrats (as a party) were behind the assassinations of Lincoln, JFK, MLK, and created racial terror systems (e.g. KKK, Jim Crow)”* is as framed: the historical record and the provid...

Jan 28, 2026
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Is this true? Abraham Lincoln, john Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martimn Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk wwre all shot by Democrats

The claim that , , , , , and were “all shot by Democrats” is false: the historical record identifies individual shooters with varied backgrounds and motives, and none of the authoritative accounts in ...

Oct 28, 2025
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Lincoln Conspiracy: a Diary, a Mummy and The Escape of John Wilkes Booth

The assembled materials advance three intertwined claims: that John Wilkes Booth escaped death in 1865 and lived decades under assumed names, that artifacts and a disputed mummy were promoted as Booth...