What did John Wilkes Booth do after shooting Lincoln?

Answer 1

He jumped from the box Lincoln was sitting in and fell to the stage where he broke his leg. He ran out of the corridor leading to the back door and tried to stab a man while he was leaving. He then jumped on his waiting horse and left Washington DC. He first tried to find help from people who he thought would be glad he shot Lincoln and he ended up at a Dr. Roger Mudd's house who fixed his leg. He then went to a friend's farm in VA and asked for refuge. They allowed him to stay in the barn, but he later was tracked down. The barn was set on fire and he was shot by a Federal Soldier. He died once he was shot. His body was thrown into a wagon and taken to a Union army depot. People started coming to collect items from his body so the army buried him in the floor of the depot. It was dug up several times to determine if it is really Booth and his family finally got him reburied. The people who were in on the plot to kill Lincoln with Booth were hung.