Chasing Lincoln's Killer Sparknotes

Chasing Lincolns killer by James L Swanson. This story talks about the event and death of Abraham lincoln. John Wilkes Booth, the main person that killed and shot Lincoln .He hated Lincoln, and previously tried to kidnap him.

It was a long journey filled with some faults, including when they went on the boat, they sailed in the wrong direction, so their trip took longer than expected. With some stops along the way, they made it to the Garrett Farm in Canada on April 23. When John Garrett was out running errands, he saw that they were offering a $140,000 reward for finding John WIlkes Booth. He didn’t know if he would turn the men in. He put the two men out in the barn that night and without them knowing, he locked them

Jones told the men to wait in the thicket until the Union soldiers gave up searching the area and left. Booth and Herold waited in the thicket for four days as Cox brought them food and news. Booth was disappointed and angry at the reaction to his deed. Booth had sent a letter to a friend explaining why he killed Lincoln, but the friend had been too scared to turn it in and instead burned the letter. Edward Stanton, Secretary of War, had to focus on the war.

Booth and his man were held up in the barn and were trapped inside, his man wanted to be taken away because he believed he was innocent, then it was just Booth alone in the barn. They told him to come out or they would burn it down, he wanted a fair fight but realized they had began to burn it. He peeked his head up to shoot with his rifle, but was shot in the neck and left paralyzed. He was dead by the

Back to Booth, he spent the night at the Garrett’s, while Herold and the soldiers went to town. They would all rejoin the next morning. Nearby, the calvary searched every nook and cranny for the assassin. At Dr. Mudd’s farm, he was arrested and imprisoned, waiting to be sentenced. Booth

John rented a horse on April 15, 1865, and he would then ride this horse into an alleyway behind Ford’s Theater. An innocent bystander was nearby, and John asked if they would hold his horse, the bystander, not knowing that John was about to enter Ford’s Theater where he would shock the United States by killing the president. John entered the theater heading straight for the president’s box with one mission in mind. Assassinating the president, and sadly, he did just that. After shooting the president in the back of the head, and killing him, he then jumped off the president’s box, scurried across the stage, and threatened attendees of the show with a knife.

The mere arrival of the White House messenger told them the president was coming to the theater tonight! Yes, the president and Mrs. Lincoln would attend this evening’s performance of the popular if silly comedy Our American Cousin. " This shows that Booth realized Lincoln was going to the theater. Then the story says, "The Lincolns had given the Fords enough advance notice for the proprietors to decorate and join together the two theater boxes –seven and eight –that, by removal of a partition, formed the president’s box at the theater," and, "Booth knew the layout of Ford’s intimately: the exact spot on Tenth Street where Lincoln would step out of his carriage, the box inside the theater where the president sat when he came to a performance, the route Lincoln could walk and the staircase he would climb to the box, the dark underground passageway beneath the

(Pg. 53). His plan didn 't go too well but he still managed to assassinate Lincoln (Pg. 39) After Booth and David Harold regrouped, they had to escape to Maryland (Pg.64). If they did not, the police would capture them and probably put them to a death sentence.

So what exactly happened on the night of Lincoln’s death, and what caused booth and his accomplices to pull the trigger? After Lincoln’s reelection in November, 1864 Booth began plotting against him due to Lincoln being anti-slavery and starting war against the South. In the beginning he only wanted to kidnap Lincoln and hold him for Richmond (confederate capital) and exchange him for confederate prisoners, but once General Robert E. Lee surrendered sent Booth on a rampage and so he decided to devise a more drastic plan. (History.com) on the night of April 14th Booth and three of his conspirators met at a boarding house- Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt and unveiled his plot.

The Lincoln Kennedy Conspiracy By: Lucas Martinez, Aidan Bowen, and Micah Banks Capon Bridge Middle School On April 15th 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. Then almost 100 years later on November 22nd 1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.

O’Reilly introduces John Wilkes Booth as the mastermind behind the President Lincoln assassination. John Wilkes Booth was a well-known popular stage actor from Maryland. He starred in many different shows that people, such as the president, would attend. After the Civil War the Union supporters from the North celebrated day and night. The people were excited that they had won the war, except John Wilkes Booth.

And that it was by the famous actor, John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s theatre. It was now around 3:00 P.M. and only Samuel stood between Booth’s success or disastrous future. Dr. Mudd did not go back to his farm until three hours later, thinking about what to do with the actor’s staying at his farm. When he finally did get there he decided not to report the two assassins staying, but did order for them to leave. He agreed not to say anything, but Dr. Mudd was a confederate and so instead he gave Booth and Herold the names of two trustworthy and local confederate operatives, William Burtles and Captain Samuel

Five days after the Confederacy’s surrender, John Wilkes Booth had successfully killed one of the most influential presidents in American history to do what he believed would redeem power to the southern states. Booth’s main goal was to tear down the Union’s government by taking down their leader and his successors, but the original plan did not involve the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Historian Christopher Hammer explained in his article "Booth's Reason for Assassination", the former actor had created a group of co conspirators and designed "a ploy on March 17 to capture Lincoln as he traveled in his carriage [and had] collapsed when the president changed his itinerary—and several of Booth’s conspirators ultimately left the group.” (Teaching History). Since the failed capture of the president, Booth hatred towards Lincoln grew after hearing the president’s goal to officially abolish slavery in his Second Presidential

James L. Swanson Chasing Lincoln’s Killer 2009 Chasing Lincoln’s Killer is a book about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, a past United States of America president. The introduction of the book is how John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s killer, and his accomplices, made a plan to kidnap the American president, but their plan failed. So, John Wilkes Booth and his little gang decide to kill the President, the Vice President, and the Secretary of State in one night. John Wilkes Booth would kill the president at Ford’s theater, His accomplice George Atzerodt would kill the Vice President at the Vice President’s hotel room. Lewis Powell and David Herold would kill the Secretary of State.

A man by the name John Wilkes Booth was the murder. John Wilkes Booth was an american stage actor also.