History Detectives

Season 1, Episode 8

Did John Wilkes Booth, the infamous assassin of Abraham Lincoln, spend time in this house? How was this ventriloquist dummy created and was a protest against racial prejudice? Did this flag once save a boarding house from being burnt down?

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