One may think that the person who brings down the man who assassinated one of the nation's most revered presidents would be a stand-up guy, a hero. Well, think again because Thomas "Boston" Corbett, the man who shot Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was not quite right upstairs.

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