The Shocking Events Leading Up to Lincoln's Assassination - a podcast by Smithsonian Channel

John Wilkes Booth hated Abraham Lincoln due to his stance on slavery. Ironically, Booth's fiancee, Lucy Hale, was the daughter of a high-profile abolitionist senator.

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