John Wilkes Booth's Assassination

This book is about lincoln our 16’th president assassination. It talks about how he died and the way they captured the killer and all the things they went thru to get him. The killer of our 16’th president was John wilkes booth. He killed president lincoln with a gun. John wilkes booth assassinated lincoln at a bar with lincoln's head turned talking to his friends about the meetings he has had and how they have been the there was like a little store that John wilkes booth entered to kill our 16’th president Abraham lincoln and there was like a breakfast bar beside the store that Abraham lincoln was in talking and enjoying his food. So while Abraham was talking

Finally, how you ever seen how the world reacted after an attack? The sorrow, the grief, but most importantly the resilience of the people, who promise to fight against a common cause. Specifically, an example of this was Lincoln’s assassination. Booth planned his attack against Lincoln in hope that he will cause enough mayhem, enough chaos that it will give time for the Confederate Army to restart their war, and win. As the book reads on page 88, “... exposed a Confederate plot to kill the leaders of the national government in an attempt to reverse the results of the Civil War.” As seen, the motive of the attack was clearly seen as try to change what had already happened. The plot was made in order to stop a more equal world from emerging.

According to historian Terry Alford, “ John Wilkes Booth was one of those people who thought the best of the country in the history of the world was the United States as it existed before the Civil War,” (Alford). When Abraham Lincoln joined the election, it infuriated Booth. To John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln was changing the country that he loved into a way that was very displeasing to him. President Lincoln wanted to increase the power of the federal government and liberate slaves, both things that Booth thought was outrageous. His anger was tested further when: the government chose to institute an income tax,, the military draft and that the government suspended habeas corpus, a legal

April 14, 1865, Friday, in the theatre Lincoln who was attending to a performance of “ Our American Cousin” and also brought Gen. Grant along to the performance. John Wilkes Booth found out that Lincoln was attending to the evening performance. Booth, then held a meeting with his partners and notified them about his master plan to kill the president in the Ford’s Theatre. One of the partners of of Booth, name George Atzerodt, who was assigned to killed Vice President, and another partner name Lewis Powell who was assigned to killed Secretary of State William Seward. The master mind, Booth who plan to attack all of them around the time of 10:45 pm.

In the excerpt from the book Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, it can be seen that John Wilkes Booth is saddened by the Union victory and how even though the country is gone, he is still angry at how it is treated, “The very next day, the tyrant Abraham Lincoln visited his captive prize and had the nerve to sit behind the desk occupied by the first and last president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis. Then, on April 9, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee and his beloved Army of Northern Virginia surrendered.” (Swanson Paragraph

Abraham Lincolns’ assassin, John Wilkes Booths’ family belonged to the Parrish. At the southeast corner of Fayette and Front street sits Shot Tower (the lead shot manufacturing facility from 1828 to 1892). Further down, moving east, past the Flag House (home of the Star-spangled Banner Flag), past the Carrolton Inn (“winter home of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence”), down the street is, the President Street Station, converted to a museum. A Civil War museum about a mile away from a large white house of worship. According to the historian at the museum. The Booth’s (Junius Brutus Booth and Maryann Holmes and their ten children) had a winter house and were members of the large white steeple structure located

John Wilks Booth, an actor and hater of the south and blacks, makes plans to tear apart the United State’s government by planning his assassins timing to kill part of Lincoln’s Cabinet along with the president’s death. However, his original plan involved only capturing President Lincoln, then holding him hostage in exchange for confederate prisoners of war. But not long before his plans were going to take place,

However, there is insufficient evidence that shows Booth may have been a rebel agent for the Confederates. Fellow conspirator George Atzerodt made a statement before his trial in 1865 that told of Booth's knowledge of a Confederate plot to blow up the White House. “The theory of Confederate complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is accepted by several of the current Lincoln assassination historians, scholars, researchers, and writers (Norton).” That may be so, but there is no evidence proving that the Confederates hired Booth, but several resources that show Booth plotted the assassination with co-conspirators, which illustrates the larger

By the year of 1859 he showed his support for slavery. John did this by joining a Virginia Company that aimed for the capture and execution of John Brown. Booth had even become a secret agent for the Confederacy during the Civil War. While he was on his break from acting he had become involved in a confederacy to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln. It was planned out by bringing Lincoln to Richmond and ordering peace and if not so ransome release of Confederate

Booth decided to take action by going to Ford Theater and shoot the man he felt was a tyrant. “Sic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,” Booth said this as he shot president Lincoln and proceeded to flee. All the while doing what he thought was right for his people.

Booth then came up with a desperate plan in order to save the past. When Lincoln had won the civil war Booth then wanted to kill

John Wilkes Booth is not someone you would want to anger. Abraham Lincoln rubbed Booth in the wrong way when Lincoln allowed black men to vote. Booth got so angry at Lincoln that when he heard the good news that Lincoln was heading to ford’s theater he devised a plan to murder the president. He ditched his original plan of just kidnapping the president for a grander plan of murder. As he was planning with other conspirers they had decided to also try and assassinate vp Andrew Johnson and secretary of state William H. Seward. The gang wanted to “turn the tide of the war” (28) and in order to ensure that, the conspirers thought it necessary to kill all three of them. Booth, being an actor, had many connections. His best connection was Fords Theater,

John Wilkes Booth is an important figure of history because he assassinated Abraham Lincoln. President Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America; he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 15, 1865. The Civil War had just finished, and the Union was victorious. Meanwhile, Booth was a Confederate supporter. Booth had many factors to motivate him to kill Lincoln, but there were some very important ones that are probably the reason he killed Lincoln.

What was the point of fighting to get the South back into the Union? The 16th president of our country was murdered on April 14, 1865. Disgusting. There were a lot of events that led up to that devastating day. After Lincoln’s re-election in 1864 he came up with a plan to kidnap our beloved president. Booth knew he couldn’t do this alone so he had some fellow confederate loyalists tag along. After his first two attempts to kidnap the president failed, a lot of Booth’s helpers left the group. On April 9, 1865, the confederate’s leader had surrendered and at that point the Union knew they would win this war. This did nothing but increase Booth’s urge to kill the president. Four days later, Booth’s plan would be carried out. Lincoln’s death was unjust because there was nearly no changes in the south, and the South and North had the same point of view towards blacks.

John Wilkes Booth, born May 10, 1838, was an actor who performed throughout the country in many plays. He was the lead in some of William Shakespeare's most famous works. Additionally, he was a racist and Southern sympathizer during the Civil War. He hated Abraham Lincoln who represented everything Booth was against. Booth blamed Lincoln for all the South's ills. He wanted revenge.