The Escape of John Wilkes Booth History's Greatest Mysteries : Season 1 Episode 4

Confederate extremist John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC then took refuge in a tobacco barn in the nearby Virginia countryside. History tells us that Union troops shot him during a standoff there but apocryphal accounts are explored that he escaped capture, lived his life under alias, and produced offspring. The DNA of alleged descendants is put to the test.