John Wilkes Booth was present at Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration on March 4, 1865.
While it's not widely known, Booth's presence at the inauguration is documented. He even made a comment to a fellow actor about how it would have been a "splendid chance" to kill the President.
It's chilling to realize that just a few weeks later, Booth would carry out his assassination of Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
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