Trivia Question: What profession did John Wilkes Booth work before he became an assassin?
Answer: He was an actor
Booth’s experience as an actor ended up helping him sneak through Ford’s Theater and claim Abraham Lincoln’s life. Indeed, the assassin also alluded to his theatrical nature when he shouted, “Sic semper tyranus,” following Lincoln’s death. The preceding Latin quote was featured in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
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