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Albert Berghaus linocut of inside Ford's Theatre. John Wilkes Booth onstage with knife in the air; Joseph B. Stewart climbing onstage; and the crowd in tumult. Published in Frank Leslies's Illustrated Newspaper, May 20, 1865
Will research for peanuts!
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Will research for peanuts!

One of the more enigmatic figures of the Lincoln assassination is Joseph “John Peanuts” Burroughs, the young errand boy at Ford’s Theatre who held John Wilkes Booth’s horse prior to the assassin’s escape. Who was Peanuts, and what happened to him after the assassination?

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