The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln

“Four score and seven years ago...” Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president and had his life taken after the North’s victory over the South; he lives on through these famous words of the Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln was an important leader in the Civil War who helped free the slaves; his legacy lives on today. Although he was assassinated his words and actions are imprinted in our memory still today. This assassination was a major event in the history of the United States, not only with the loss of a great president, but with the changes and implications that came with it.

Abraham Lincoln, one of our founding fathers played a major role in what America is today, but his death was shocking. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln immensely impacted the nation. John Wilkes Booth was the man that took Lincoln’s life and put the nation in agony.

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.

On April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while at Ford 's Theater. This is a widely known fact but many of the events leading up to his death are obscure. Why was he assassinated? What was really supposed to happen that dreadful night? What made the south so mad? How did this affect the future of the United States? All of these questions have answers, the only thing you have to do is look.

John Wilkes Booth was born into a family of famous actors. John was born in Bel Air, Maryland on May 10th, 1838 (Civil War Trust). John Booth saw his father as a leader and made his father very proud. John Wilkes Booth’s parents came from England as immigrants. John’s father, Junius, was an exceeding British Shakespearean Actor. As for John’s mother, Mary Ann Holmes, she was Junius’s Mistress (Civil War Trust). John Wilkes Booth aspired to be a Shakespearean like his father. John, attended school in Catonsville, Maryland and Bel Air, Sparks. John was in many plays. John Booth made his last appearance on stage in The Apostate as Duke Pescara at Ford’s theater in Washington D.C on March 18th. Before his last performance, he played in plays such as Richard III along the cities on the East Coast (Civil War Trust). There are not

Almost everything in life or death starts with a plan, and that was no different for John Wilkes Booth. He and his co-conspirators, all southern Confederates, knew what they wanted, and originally that didn’t include President Lincoln’s death. They had wanted to kidnap him, take him to _______, and hold him for ransom. However, the main reason for such a drastic measures by the confederates was so that they could promote a trade with the North, the trade of men. They hoped to trade Lincoln for the Confederate prisoners of war.

On April 14, 1865 at twelve o’ clock midnight John Wilkes Booth lay in his bed at the National Hotel. Three days earlier he had attended a speech given by President Abraham Lincoln at the White House. The civil war had commenced just two days earlier and the crowd was jubilant. When Lincoln concluded his speech with the the acknowledgment of black suffrage, Booth became incensed and declared that “Now by God, I’ll put him through, that will be the last speech he makes”. Booth was a staunch Confederate sympathizer and he had previously plotted a kidnapping involving the president in exchange for POWS between the northern and southern states. With that plan failed, he became desperate in figuring a way to put the power back in the Confederacy. Along with three other conspirators Booth realized exactly what needed to be done and that night at Ford’s Theatre, while a performance of the play “Our American Cousin” was appearing, Booth slipped into the Presidential Box seats where Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd were seated and shot him. Booth jumped onto the stage below and fled the scene among the chaos. As Lincoln lay dying a young surgeon named Charles Leale and other doctors in the audience tended to Lincoln and decided that traveling to the White house was out of the question, so carrying him out of the theatre on a stretcher, Lincoln was taken to the Petersen Boarding House

On April 18, 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. John was from Maryland born in 1838 him and several associates had planned to kidnap and take him to Richmond Abraham Lincoln but where the place they planned to take him Lincoln didn't show up. After that John planned to save the Confederacy. John and his several others found out that Abraham and his wife was going to be at the “Our American Cousin” a theatre in Washington. Lincoln was in the private box with his wife Mary, an officer and the officers fiance, Abraham also arrived late to the comedy and people said he was happy and laughing. At 10:15 John went into the box and shot Abraham in the back of the head with a 44-caliber, before he shot Abraham he stabbed one

John Wilkes Booth was a famous actor & confederate shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s theatre in Washington D.CThe attack happened after 5 days before confederate general Robert E Lee surrendered his & ending the civil war

In April of 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, was assassinated at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC. His assassin was John Wilkes Booth, who was a very famous actor at the time. Less than two weeks after he committed the horrible deed, Booth was cornered by the Sixteenth New York Cavalry in a tobacco barn in Virginia. John Wilkes Booth refused to surrender, so the forces responded by setting the barn ablaze. Although the Cavalry wanted to keep Booth alive, Sergeant Boston Corbett defied orders and shot Booth in the neck. The gunshot proved to be fatal and Booth died a few hours later. The body of Booth was identified by Dr. John Frederick May, who examined the body in Washington, DC. He may have

John Wilkes Booth, he went from a well-loved actor to a hated assassin. Booth was a well-known man because of his acting, and later on the assassination of Lincoln during the play, Our American Cousin. Booth was a famous Booth had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, with two weapons, but many reasons. Why he assassinated Lincoln, there are many factors, some might still be unknown.

Have you ever had a frenemie? Well, the Union and the Confederates were. They were still a country, but they were fighting like pit bulls in a dog fight, however, they would usually not react in this manner, but under the circumstances, they were going for each other’s throats. Abraham Lincoln, the leader of the Union, the leader of the confederacy, Jefferson Davis, and their generals, were some tremendously significant people of the Civil War.

Killing Lincoln is an intriguing book about the events that led to the assassination of President Lincoln. It discusses the planning leading up to the killing and the actual assassination. It goes through the current events that occurred during that time period and John Wilkes Booth’s thoughts. This book does not have to be read only by people only interested in history because it is that interesting and entertaining. It is a book that grabs the reader and pulls them in appealing to all audiences. This book would appeal to any person who enjoys a good, fairly easy read.

Abraham Lincoln, a name who many know, was the first US president to ever be assassinated. Lincoln was elected to the House of Representatives in 1846 and he began his term the following year. Originally, he was not popular among the voters and he decided to not go for reelection but in 1861 Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the 16th president of the United States. Shortly after the election, seven southern states seceded and created the Confederate States of America causing the Civil war. Several years after the election, John Wilkes Booth successfully killed Lincoln. Therefore, with Lincoln being the first president to be assassinated, America was shocked upon hearing of his death but his passing tested the country and the strength of our constitutional plan for success.

The death of Abraham Lincoln was a much anticipated yet dreaded event. Lincoln’s presence in politics and warfare, while seen a heroic to most was indeed also seen as tyrannical to roughly half of the nation's population. John Wilkes Booth had the means to assassinate Lincoln in belief that in would put a stop to the abolitionist movement, remove his despotic presence from government, and wage war in return for peace in the South.