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Hershey Felder's "An American Story" by John Olson

Some people's lives are remarkable for what they've done. Others are remarkable for what they've seen. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, the 23-year-old Army surgeon who was present when John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln and then tended to the dying President for the last nine hours of his life, was both.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13AM on March 12, 2013

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