Before the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was planning on kidnapping the president, this was in early 1864. He was planning on releasing him for a ransom, only to have confederate prisoners to be released.
The kidnapping turned into a killing of several government officials on April 14, 1865. John Wilkes Booth took the fall for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and didn't tell them about his conspirators. John Booth assassinated President Lincoln when he was at the Fords Theatre. John was able to creep up behind president lincoln and shot him in the head. Booth was running for twelve days before a military man hunt went down. John fought the military while his partner in crime surrendered. Booth was trying to take out Vice President Andrew Johnson and his secretary of state William H. Seward( murdered the only two people who could take the place of the president in the oval office). John Wilkes Booth had a wanted sign up everywhere and the reward money went from $50,000 to $100,000. When he was fighting the military force he died from a gunshot wound. Booth's co-conspirators were finally convicted for what they did to make the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, David Herold and Mary Surratt were executed on July 7, 1865 ( Mary Surratt was the first woman to be put to death by the federal government).
President Lincoln was killed because the South was angry that the war was over. He was shot five days after the civil war ended when General Robert E. Lee put up the white flag in the Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
President Abraham Lincoln was in the private box with his wife Mary, an army officer Henry Rathbone and his fiancé Clara. When John Wilkes Booth got into the private box, he stabbed Henry Rathbone in the shoulder, why he was trying to defend the president. At 10:15 a 44- caliber single- shot derringer was pulled by John killing the president. President Lincoln was paralyzed and was having a hard time breathing when the doctor Charles Leale- who was in the audience watching the play- came into the box after hearing the gun shot and the first lady's scream. Lincoln's Cabinet and some of his closest friends stood by his bedside until he officially died at 7:22 a.m. When Lincoln died there was a leadership void.
Troops set fire to the Virginia Farmhouse where Booth and David Harold were hiding out, trying to get the fugitives to come out. John Booth was shot in the neck by a sergeant, who claimed that Booth had drew a weapon on him. John Wilkes Booth came out of the farmhouse alive, and died three hours later and said his last two words, " Useless, useless".
A group called the Radical Republicans controlled the Congress when the civil war ended. Lincoln saw the reconstruction of the congress as a time of healing. Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill in 1964. Andrew Johnson became president after the death of Abraham Lincoln.
President Abraham Lincoln was in the private box with his wife Mary, an army officer Henry Rathbone and his fiancé Clara. When John Wilkes Booth got into the private box, he stabbed Henry Rathbone in the shoulder, why he was trying to defend the president. At 10:15 a 44- caliber single- shot derringer was pulled by John killing the president. President Lincoln was paralyzed and was having a hard time breathing when the doctor Charles Leale- who was in the audience watching the play- came into the box after hearing the gun shot and the first lady's scream. Lincoln's Cabinet and some of his closest friends stood by his bedside until he officially died at 7:22 a.m. When Lincoln died there was a leadership void.
Troops set fire to the Virginia Farmhouse where Booth and David Harold were hiding out, trying to get the fugitives to come out. John Booth was shot in the neck by a sergeant, who claimed that Booth had drew a weapon on him. John Wilkes Booth came out of the farmhouse alive, and died three hours later and said his last two words, " Useless, useless".
A group called the Radical Republicans controlled the Congress when the civil war ended. Lincoln saw the reconstruction of the congress as a time of healing. Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill in 1964. Andrew Johnson became president after the death of Abraham Lincoln.