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About Finis Langdon Bates
Finis Langdon Bates ( August 22, 1848 – November 29, 1923 ) was a Memphis, Tennessee, lawyer and author of The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth (1907). In this 309-page book, Bates claimed that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, not only was not mortally wounded by Union Army Sergeant Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett on April 26, 1865, but that Booth successfully eluded capture altogether, and lived for many years thereafter under a series of assumed names, notably John St. Helen and David E. George.
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Finis Langdon Bates's Timeline
| 1848 |
August 22, 1848
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Van Buren, Itawamba County, Mississippi, United States
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| 1901 |
July 28, 1901
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TN, United States
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| 1923 |
November 29, 1923
Age 75
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Memphis, Shelby, TN, United States
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