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Waveform Audio File Format  |  2000-10-09  |  2.4 MB  |  1 channel  |  11,025 sample rate  |  1 minute, 51 seconds

Transcription: The Civil War ended with the surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox on April 9th, 1865. Five days later for relaxation, President and Mrs. Lincoln attended a popular comedy at Ford's Theater in Washington. A woman in the audience noted, the President is in yonder upper right-hand private box, so handsomely decked with silken flags festooned over a picture of George Washington. John Wilkes Booth was a well-known actor, but a deranged Confederate sympathizer. He was not appearing in the play. He had a wholly different plot in mind. The comedy concerned a rustic American's cleverness in de ...

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