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Forming a commission to investigate
On May 1, 1865, President Andrew Johnson ordered the Lincoln assassination conspirators tried by military commission. The commission met eight days later.
Verdicts of the commission
The military commission deliberated the fates of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirators for two days. Booth was not tried because he was shot and killed while...
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