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With the help of his accomplice David Herold, John Wilkes Booth fled Washington shortly after assassinating Lincoln. Despite having a Broken leg, Booth was able to avoid the authorities for some time by hiding in the wilderness. On April 26th of that same year, the authorities caught up with Booth on a farm in Virginia. The barn he had been using for shelter was subsequently surrounded by armed men, who blocked Booth's only path to freedom. The men sent to find Booth had orders to capture him alive; nevertheless, he was shot and killed by one of the men, who insisted that god had given him the order to kill Booth.
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∙ 14y agoYes. Several people who were believed to have been involved with Booth in both Lincoln's assassination, and the killing of other government officials were sentenced to death.
David E. Herold, a former druggist clerk, joined Booth in Maryland, and tried to help Booth escape to Virginia. Near Port Royal, Virginia, Booth was killed, and Herold surrendered.
George Atzerodt, a carriage maker, for planning the the murder of Vice President, Andrew Johnson.
Lewis Paine, a former Confederate soldier, for attempting to kill Secretary of State, William H. Seward.
Mrs. Mary E. Surratt, the owner of the Washington boarding house, for helping the plotters. Booth and other supporters, planned the crime's in Mrs. Surratt's house.
All four individuals were hanged on July 7, 1865.
Others that went to prison included: Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlin, boyhood friends of Booth's, of helping him plan the crimes. Samuel A. Mudd, a Maryland physician who had set Booth's broken leg after the assassination of Lincoln, was charged with aiding the plotters. Edward Spangler, a stagehand at Ford's Theater, was charged for helping Booth escape.
Arnold, Mudd, and O'Laughlin , were sentenced to life imprisonment, and Spangler received a six-year sentence. O'Laughlin, died in prison of yellow fever in 1867. President Andrew Johnson pardoned Arnold, Mudd, and Spangler, in 1869.
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∙ 14y agoJohn Wilkes Booth headshot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater on Good Friday, 14 April 1865.
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