Lincoln's Assasination
Abraham Lincoln was one of, if not the greatest, presidents in the United States' history. He led the country through one of the toughest times in history and was still able to preserve the union. However, while he was president many people hated him because of his views on slavery and the ways that he controlled the people during the Civil War. The majority of the South thought of President Lincoln as a tyrant who preserved the union at the cost of personal liberty because of the restrictions he placed on certain rights such as the freedom of speech. John Wilkes Booth was one of these extreme Southern supporters, and he was prepared to bring an end to Lincoln's power in any way he felt was necessary. He assassinated President Lincoln for what he believed was the good of the nation. Booth's reasons for the shooting are still not fully understood and are probably due to Booth's strange upbringing and eccentric personality. These are the events leading up to the assassin!ation and some of John Wilkes Booth's reasons for the shooting. John Wilkes Booth was the son of Junius Booth and Mary Ann Homes who were British immigrants and well-known actors. The Booth family name was well known throughout th
During the 1850s Booth, a well-known racist, became involved in the Know-Nothing Party. This was a political party that wanted to keep immigrants out of the country and preserve it for white, native born citizens. In October of 1859 Booth joined a Virginia militia known as the Richmond Grays. His main reason for joining the militia was to participate in the arrest and execution of abolitionist John Brown who he said, "had no right to other's affairs south of the Mason and Dixon Line." Although he promised his mother that he would not join the confederate army, Booth supported the southern cause and on numerous occasions smuggled medical supplies to the confederate lines. leg just above the ankle. He ran across the stage and showed the bloody knife to the some 1,000 people in attendance and then ran to the alley where a theater worker named Joseph Burroughs was waiting with a horse. The other attacks were not as successful. Atzerodt never attempted to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Payne slit Seward's throat, but failed to kill him. Lincoln held on for nine more hours and finally passed away at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865. In the summer of 1864 Booth began to make plans for the abduction of President Lincoln. Seizing Lincoln from a carriage the president would be taken to Richmond, Virginia in exchange for Confederate prisoners. He believed this would be a huge boost to confederate morale enabling them to renew their fight and possibly win the war. He began to recruit a gang of conspirators to make the attack. Within a couple of months he had found a small group of men who were willing to go through with the act. The group included his old schoolmates and ex-confederate soldiers Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlin. He had also made friends with John Surratt a confederate dispatch rider, who later brought two accomplices; an unbalanced 19 year old named David Herold and a German immigrant named George Atzerodt. The group met at Gautier's Restaurant on March 15th, which was just three blocks from Ford's Theatre, to discuss the kidnapping. Booth learned that Lincoln was going to attend a ! he would kill President Lincoln himself, George Atzerodt was suppose to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson and Payn
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