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Andrew tells us about Boston Corbett, a lonely British immigrant who  became an American hero for killing Presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Things don't go great for the Bost man after that.

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Andrew got the idea for this episode from a great book by James L. Swanson called  Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060518509/manhunt/

The bulk of the info used in this episode was derived from the two articles below
https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/04/12/the-man-who-killed-john-wilkes-booth/

https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/thomas-p-boston-corbett/15134