How many days after the assassination was Booth tracked down?
Twelve
Three
Seven
Twenty
Answer
After twelve days of being on the run, John Wilkes Booth was tracked down and killed in a barn in Virginia. Booth had shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Booth and his accomplices fled the city, but were eventually cornered in the barn by Union soldiers. Booth was shot and killed by a soldier named Boston Corbett.
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