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In addition to planning to assassinate Lincoln at Ford's Theater, who else did John Wilkes Booth plan to assassinate?

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On Good Friday, Apr. 14, 1865, Booth, having learned that Lincoln planned to attend Laura Keene's performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington on that evening, plotted the simultaneous assassination of the President, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William H. Seward.

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