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That is John Wilkes Booth,
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the third son of an acting dynasty.
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He has set out not only to play the roles
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that made his father and brothers famous,
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but to bring to the stage a new style of acting,
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an in-the-moment naturalism and realism all his own.
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Born and raised in Maryland, a border state,
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a slave state that did not secede from the Union,
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John Wilkes Booth is also a Southern zealot,
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whose hatred of Abraham Lincoln is nothing less than fanatical.
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In October of 1864,
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Booth makes contact with the Confederate Secret Service.