John Wilkes Booth planned on shooting President Lincoln in the back of the head in the balcony of Ford's Theater.
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John Wilkes Booth organized the plan to kill President Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth planned to kill President Lincoln. He successfully assassinated the President on April 14, 1865 and was later captured and killed.
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John Wilkes Boothe planned on, and succeeded in, killing Union president Abraham Lincoln.
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John Wilkes Booth and his fellow conspirators had kidnapping of President Lincoln as their primary objective. When the South surrendered, they acted in revenge for the Union's victory over the South.
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John Wilkes Booth led a bunch of people to throw the US Federal Government into chaos after the Civil War ended in April 1865. It was his plan to kill as many people leading the Union as possible. John Wilkes Booth murdered President Abraham Lincoln, but, his followers only wounded another politician. Booth was shot to death in a barn, after he refused to surrender. 4 of his fellow plotters were hung (after a brief military trial), and others were sent to prison for a long time. Plotting and carrying out President Lincoln's assassination
Washington DC based actor, John Wilkes Booth headed a conspiracy that had first planned to kidnap President Lincoln. Later after Robert E. Lee's surrender, Booth changed his plans from a kidnapping to an assassination of President Lincoln. His co-conspirators were to kill the Secretary of State and the Secretary of War. Only Booth was successful. He was soon hunted down and was killed in Maryland.