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What was the Lincoln Conspiracy?

| April 20, 2011 9:00 AM

When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, he was a part of a larger conspiracy that aimed to decapitate the Union government. James Solomon, screenwriter of the new film, The Conspirator, talks to Discovery News' Jorge Ribas.