American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Before this, Julia and Ulysses S. Grant were invited, but they turned down the invitation. So, Clara and Henry accepted a last-minute invitation to see the play with the Lincoln’s. When John Wilkes Booth shot the president, Clara’s fiance’, Henry was the first line of defense after John Wilkes Booth attacked. Henry jumped to attack Booth, but Booth used his knife to slash Henry’s left arm open from elbow to shoulder. Henry Rathbone was also hurt, but he tried another attempt to stop Booth, but ignored. John Wilkes Booth jumped off the box and made an easy escape out of the back of the theatre. Then, Henry collapsed to the ground, weak from all the blood-loss, and Clara and Mary Todd Lincoln began to scream. In the theatre, the audience was alerted by the noise John Wilkes Booth was making while escaping. Clara was quite covered in Henry Rathbone’s blood, while she was trying to stop the blood with her handkerchief. Mary Todd Lincoln was broken-hearted and she accidentally mistook Henry’s blood for Abraham Lincoln’s. The screaming from the box spread throughout the theatre and the doctors in the house were located and rushed to the president. President Lincoln was moved to a house across the street from the theatre. Abraham Lincoln then died the next day at 7:22 am on April 15, 1865, he was surrounded by loved ones and well-known citizens, including Clara.

After that, the book speaks to how John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices planned and executed the assassination of President Lincoln. The book then details John Wilkes Booth and his perils of getting away to a place where he can seek refuge from the manhunt. Next, Andrew Johnson is sworn in and takes the office ofhte presidency as the seventeenth president. Booth continues running for twelve days following the assassination of President Lincoln. It was on the twelfth day that Booth was apprehended in a tobacco warehouse on Garrett Farm. After setting the barn containing John Wilkes Booth ablaze, a firefight ensued. Though the soldiers were ordered not to kill John Wilkes Booth, a corpral named Boston Cobrett shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, claiming that God has instructed him to do it. With the head of the conspiracy dead, there were still other people that were somehow involved with the plot to assassinate Lincoln, Mary Surratt, David Herald, George Atzerodt, and Lewis Powell faced trial on July 6, 1865, and were all four hanged on July 7,

At about 6:00 pm Booth arrived at the deserted theatre, where he tampered with the outer door of the presidential box so that it could be jammed shut from the inside. He returned during the play’s third act to find Lincoln and his guests essentially unguarded. (Encyclopedia Britannica 2017).

At the age of 12, travelling through Michigan, John Brown, the most physical abolitionist known to date, finally found his importance in life by witnessing an enslaved African-American boy living life in servitude, being beaten on a day to day basis. Haunting him for his years to come, the violence displayed on this young boy informed John to make his own abolitionism, one which was pure violent. Malicious. Spiteful. Malevolent. John Brown is known not to cease any event with any sort of precaution and will always continue to strike. John Brown is a developed character and cannot be grasped easily, as his views were twisted. One of his great and most treacherous achievements out of all was the Raid on Harper’s Ferry. Cunning as ever, John knew

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.

John Wilkes Booth was able to escape to the southwest instead of being shot in the tobacco barn shortly after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln. He was living under the pseudonym “John St. Helen” while residing with his friend, Finis Bates, in Texas in 1877. While St. Helen was very ill, he confessed to Bates that he himself killed Lincoln. When St. Helen recovered, Bates questioned him about his

John Wilkes Booth, murder of our beloved President, has been put to an end on April 26th in Mr. Garrett’s farm barn. John Wilkes Booth, a nationally renowned actor, should have a much better life than been the murder of Abraham Lincoln. “He was the son of the legendary actor and tragedian Junius Brutus Booth” (Swanson). It is his resentment over the Union destroyed his fames and brought his life to an early end.

John Wilkes Booth is famous for assassinating Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, during a play at Ford’s Theater. Although John Wilkes Booth had many opportunities to murder America’s president, Ford’s Theater was the place where he commited the crime because Booth was an actor who has worked at Ford’s theater, meaning that he was very familiar with the place. Booth has had a good chance at assassinating Lincoln on multiple occasions. In Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, Booth has said, “what an excellent chance I had ... to kill the president on Inauguration Day” (Swanson 1). Later in the prologue, Booth had another chance at murdering Lincoln as he was giving the speech in which he proposed giving African-Americans the right

Throughout his childhood, John had learned to be against slavery. His father was a deeply religious man who believed owning people was against God’s word. Even as a child and teenager John was mature, enough to be an adult. So when he saw slaves beaten by their owners, he knew it was wrong. As a teenager, John proceeded to become closer to the lord. Soon John was an adult and still believed that slavery was wrong. The murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy set John over the edge and he vowed that he would end slavery.

A man named John Wilkes Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln. Booth was born in Maryland in 1838. He lived in the North during the Civil War, even though he believed the South should win. Booth believed that President Lincoln was responsible for the Civil War.

On April 14th, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot dead while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at the Ford's Theater. His killer, was the famous actor and confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth. Take a step back from the assassination and look at the life of John Wilkes Booth. A seemingly normal, average, and handsome man with everything to lose.

Lincoln's Assassination. What can you say about it? Do you know much about it? If not, I'm here to tell you all about it! Here's how it goes... On April 14th, 1865, Abraham Lincoln arrived at Ford's Theatre with his wife Mary, army soldier Henry Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancé, Clara Harris. They had arrived late to the production "Our American Cousin". At 10:15pm, John Wilkes Booth slipped into the Presidential Box and shot Lincoln's head with a .44 caliber single shot derringer. Booth jumped onto the stage and yelled "Thus ever to tyrants!". As people rushed to Lincoln's side, he was found paralyzed and having trouble breathing. Soldiers carried Lincoln to William Peterson's house and laid him on a bed. When the general surgeon arrived,

He was killed in Washington, D.C. by a well-known stage actor named John Wilkes Booth. Booth was the first person to successfully kill a president; he shot Lincoln at Ford's theater. John Wilkes Booth had a motive- he did not like the abolishment of slavery and he thought it would revive the Confederate cause since he was part of a larger conspiracy. Some Think that Lincoln had anticipated his assassination because he had a dream three days before that it would happen. Prior to his burial, he had a nine car funeral train in many grieved his death.

While Abraham Lincoln had no idea that John Wilkes Booth was going to shoot him at Ford’s theater on April 14, 1865 he could have been warned if someone that knew John was planning on assassinating him. Since Abraham Lincoln was a great president, he freed slaves, and ended the civil war, despite all of his excellent achievements many people condemned Abraham for freeing

For generations, the foundation of societies have ultimately stayed the same, with only ideas changing. To this day the voice of many remains unheard and unspoken as people are expected to conform to the standards of society. The idea of “Group Think” requires an exact mold for the members to shape to, but in reality Developed in 1972 by Irving Janis, “Group Think”, a psychological phenomenon, affects the choices of thousands of people unknowingly and deleteriously. The fallout of a group and its tragic aftermath due to the effects of “Group Think” is shown in The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller in which chaos has risen across Salem, Massachusetts with the appearance of witch trials. Tangled up in the trials, the characters are forced to undertake actions against their own will power. Key driving symptoms of Groupthink contributing to the Salem witch trial include, but are not limited to pressure, an in illusion morality and self-censorship.