John Wilkes Booth's Assassination

The final motivating factor that influenced Booth to assassinate Lincoln is that he did it for the good of the country. Booth believed that his country wanted the same as he did, although that was not the case. In Booth’s diary it states, “The country is not what it was. This forced Union is not what I have loved. I do not care what becomes of me. I have no desire to outlive my country.” In the statement he is explaining that since Lincoln has been the president he has turn the country “upside

Booth was now in the box of the theatre. On April 14, 1865, just after 10 p.m., Booth pulled a .44-calibre derringer and shot President Lincoln in the back of the head. “He grappled briefly with Union officer Maj. Henry Rathbone (who, along with his fiancée, was in the box as the Lincoln’s guest), swung himself over the balustrade, and leaped off it, reportedly shouting, “Sic semper tyrannis!” (the motto of the state of Virginia, meaning “Thus always to tyrants!”) or “The South is avenged!” or both” (Encyclopedia Britannica 2017). Booth next jumped off the stage, breaking his leg in the process, but managed to make it to his getaway horse before anyone in the shocked crowd could stop him (Biography April 28, 2017). The attempt to kill Seward did not succeed, but Lincoln died shortly after seven o’clock the following morning. (Encyclopedia Britannica 2017).

On April 14, Lincoln held a Cabinet congregation to talk over post-war reconstructing exhaustively. President Lincoln wanted to have southern state governments in operation prior to Congress met in December in order to keep away from the oppression of the vengeful Radical Republicans. That same night, during the time that Lincoln was watching a play at Ford’s Theatre, a fanatical Southern actor, John Wilkes Booth, crept up at the back Lincoln and shot him in the head. Lincoln died the following day, leaving the South with little wish for a non-revengeful Reconstruction.

When Booth found out that the president was coming to Ford’s Theater on April 14th, 1865, he was very determined to kill him. In chapter one, it reads, “Booth heard the big news: In just eight hours, the man who was subject of all his hating and plotting would stand on the very steps where he sat now.” This is talking about how excited Booth was when he found out the president was coming to the theater. Instantly, his mind started forming a cunning plan to annihilate the confederate leaders.

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.

On the evening on April 14, 1856, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who had already attempted to kidnap Lincoln twice already, while attending the play of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater. Sitting with him were Mayor Henry Rathbone and his fiancée, Clare Harris. While watching the play, Booth sneaked into the box the president, a knife in his left hand and a pistol in his right. Booth shot the president in the back of the head, slashed Rathbone across the arm, and jumped off the balcony. Booth caught his leg on a flag on the way down and broke his leg. Lincoln was carried to a boarding house next door and died the next day. President Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated in United States history. John booth escaped, sought medical attention for his wounded leg, and fled into the Virginia country side. Union troops found the barn he was hiding in, surrounded it, set it on fire, and shot Booth as he attempted to escape (“The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,” 34f). The president’s body was taken by train to Springfield, Illinois, where he was then buried. Accomplices of Booth’s were tried for their part in trying to assassinate other leaders, such as the Vice President and the Secretary of War. Others were tried in court for attempting to aid

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

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 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.

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

Booth and his co-conspirators also planned to simultaneously assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward, hoping to throw the Union into disarray and save the Confederacy (History.com Staff). Booth had heard of Lincoln's plan to attend the play Our American Cousin on April 14, 1865 at the Ford's Theater, and planned to assassinate the President there (History.com Staff). At the play, Booth, whose appearance there wasn't uncommon being a famous actor, snuck into the President's private box and shot him in the head with a .44-caliber derringer (History.com Staff). Booth then jumped from the box to the stage, shouting the Virginia state motto, Sic semper tyrannis!--thus always to tyrants (History.com Staff). For a minute, the crowd only thought Booth's outburst was part of the play, until the distraught First Lady Mary Lincoln alerted the crowd to the horror unfolding in the President's box (History.com Staff). Doctors rushed to the box and carried him to a boardinghouse across the street, where the surgeon general announced that the President wouldn't survive the night (History.com Staff). Although the assassination attempts on the Vice President and Secretary of State failed, the President was not so lucky. President Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 AM on the morning of April 15 (History.com

John Wilkes Booth and several alliances were first planning to kidnap Lincoln. If they had succeeded, they would have taken him to Richmond, the capital of the south. But on that night Lincoln never showed up to the drop off point. Two weeks later Richmond had fallen to the union. This all could have changed history at its core.

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

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

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.