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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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Which man organized the plan to kill President Lincoln?

john wilkes booth


Who organized the plan to kill president Lincoln?

John Wilkes Booth organized the plan to kill President Abraham Lincoln.


Who did booth plan to kill?

John Wilkes Booth planned to kill President Lincoln. He successfully assassinated the President on April 14, 1865 and was later captured and killed.


Who did John Wilkes Booth plan to kill along with Lincoln?

he planned to kill the vice president and the secretary of state


Who did john wilks booth plan to kill?

John Wilkes Boothe planned on, and succeeded in, killing Union president Abraham Lincoln.


Who did John Wilkes Booth plan to kidnap?

Abraham Lincoln


Why did John Wilkes Booth and fellow conspirators plan to kill President Lincoln and important cabinet members?

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.


Is this true or false Leaders of the Confederacy were found to have aided John Wilkes Booth to carry out the plan to assassinate President Lincoln?

true


Which man organized the plan to kill Lincoln?

John Wilkes Booth


Who else did John Wilkes Booth plan to kill?

monkeys, all the monkeys in the world


What was John Wilkes booth responsible for?

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


Which man organized plan to kill Lincoln?

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.