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John Wilkes Booth 1838–65
American actor and assassin 

  1. Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
    having shot President Lincoln, 14 April 1865
    in New York Times 15 April 1865; the second part of the statement does not appear in any contemporary source, and is possibly apocryphal; see Anonymous
  2. Useless! Useless!
    last words; Philip van Doren Stern The Man Who Killed Lincoln (1939)