The Story Of John Wilkes Booth's Assassination

The book essentially goes over Lincoln’s killer and his plans and what his thoughts were before, during and after the shooting of President Lincoln. It is a book that mainly focuses on John Wilkes Booth , the killer, and his plans and how it panned out. John Wilkes Booth was an actor and lived a wealthy life, he was someone who was considered very handsome by many and someone with fine clothes. His tactics per se were not well planned out. John Wilkes Booth had tried to kidnap President Lincoln before, but he failed to do so he planned on bringing Lincoln to the South and demanding peace, Boothe had recently heard about the appearance the Lincolns would be given at the Ford 's theatre, he knew the Lincoln’s would have a box inside the theatre where he would sit . Although he committed the act of assassinating President Lincoln he did not plan on how he was going to get through to him,the obstacles he would have to overcome, he just knew he would do whatever he needed to do to get the task done. Booth was someone who did not like Lincoln’s plans for America, especially the south. He yelled “ The South is avenged” after killing the president of the United States. Not only were his thoughts on ending the President but also the Vice President and the Secretary of State because of what they stood for.

He held one final meeting with his co-conspirators. He said he would kill Lincoln at the theatre (he had since learned that Grant had left town). Atzerodt was to kill Vice-President Andrew Johnson at the Kirkwood House where Johnson resided. Powell was assigned to kill Secretary of State William Seward. Herold would accompany Powell. All attacks were to take place simultaneously at approximately 10:15 P.M. that night. Booth hoped the resulting chaos and weakness in the government would lead to a comeback for the South.

I wanted him to die knowing what he did was wrong, knowing that he killed one of the greatest presidents America has ever known. Instead Booth sneaks away spending some time in Forests and slowly moving further south, if it weren’t for a couple of encounters he had he would have easily gotten away untouched, and who knows he may have never been brought to justice. His death to me was unsatisfying. He and his co-conspirator David Herold were found sleeping in a barn Close to Virginia. Almost 60 miles from Fords theatre. Herold surrendered and they burned the barn and shot Booth paralyzing him. He died almost three hours later. In my opinion he should have been hanged in front of all the American people, that way he knew what he did hurt this great nation more than he would ever know.

John Wilkes Booth was the murderer of the sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. With the nation divided and the Confederacy falling apart, Booth murdered Washington in hope that the confederavy would have a second chance. John Wilkes Booth did not accomplish his goal because was caught and was not help the confederacy change the course of the war. Firstly, John Wilkes Booth was later caught and killed.

When none of his attempts were successful, he set a new plan, one not quite like the others, this one-an assassination. According to Booth’s former friend Louis Weichmann, Booth set out this plan after hearing Lincoln deliver a speech about Negro Suffrage.

Sadly, Lincoln was killed due to the belief of Booth that “Lincoln was going to over throw the constitution and destroy the south he loved.” (Booths reason for assassination) This was most likely caused by the fact that Booth was an open confederate sympathizer during the war. It was also thought that the guards were not doing their jobs at the theatre and that they allowed Booth to sneak by and shoot Lincoln in the head with a 44 caliber derringer pistol. Recently after Lincoln’s death it was found that co-conspirators were involved in Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s

On this night John Wilks Booth intended on killing the vice president Andrew Jackson, the secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton, and successfully assassinated the 16th president of the United States of America. Booth spent 12 days on the run, within those 12 day Samuel Cox ( farmer who provides temporary refuge for Booth and Herold), Richard Garrett ( the farmer in whose barn Booth and Herold are captured), where few of the people who helped Booth during those 12 days. Sergeant Boston Corbett was the union solider who shot Booth. Booth misjudged how people would react he thought he would be seen as a southern hero, but most people saw it as a heinous crime. (O’Reilly 12) (Levison par.

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

On March 17 1865 famous actor John Wilkes Booth along with, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Lewis Paine met in a bar in Washington to being planning for the abduction of president Abraham Lincoln. (“History.com”:2009) Booth was a well regarded actor that particularly loved in the south before the Civil War. Along with Samuel Arnold, Michael O’Laughlin, and John Surratt, Booth planned on kidnapping Lincoln and delivering him to the South. Lincoln then changed his plan for the designated day of the kidnapping. Now Booth’s plan had been ruined. (“History.com”:2009) They group accompanied by George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Lewis Paine decided that they were gonna assassinate President Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson,

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,

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

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 possibly knew of the Baltimore plot, but certainly planned to kidnap Lincoln at two points in 1864 and 1865, to force the release of rebel captives. Conspirators living in or around Mary Surratt's boarding house in Washington assisted with these plans, which failed. When on Tuesday, April 11, 1865, two days after Appomattox, Lincoln gave a speech from the upper window of the White House to a crowd on the lawn below, Booth was present with Lewis Payne and David Herold to hear Lincoln suggest that voting rights ought now be extended to black men who were literate and/or had served in the Union military.

In 1865, John Wilkes Booth murdered President Lincoln after the Civil War. John Booth came to Bryantown to visit Samuel Mudd after he broke his ankle jumping on the stage of Ford’s theater. Dr. Mudd fixed the bone and hospitalized Booth and David Herold. Dr. Samuel Mudd was arrested and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Dr. Mudd should be innocent because he only fixed someone’s ankle and taking care for people. Mudd did not know of John Wilkes Booth’s plan to kill the president.