"Tell my mother I died for my country...Useless... useless..."
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January 1, 1970

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Who: John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. — Note: He said these words as he laid mortally wounded after being shot during a manhunt three hours earlier.