John Wilkes Booth was a Southern sympathizer along with several of his friends. When the US Civil War was still undecided, Booth planned to kidnap US President Lincoln and bring him to the South. He hoped he could as captive, and allow the Confederacy to negotiate a deal for Southern independence. Once the war was over, he sought revenge by assassinating Lincoln.
Killing Abraham Lincoln
They burned him
John Wilkes Boothe planned on, and succeeded in, killing Union president Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln but later he ended up shooting and killing him.
John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth ASSASSINATED Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater, in Washington DC
John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln in the Ford Theatre.
John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater, in Washington DC
Booth was tracked by U.S. soldiers to rural Virginia where he was shot and killed.
No. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.