Abraham Lincoln
Yes, one of the original plans was to kidnap Lincoln
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John Wilkes Booth and members of his conspiracy had originally hoped to kidnap Lincoln and hold him for ransom. The attempt(s) to do this were unsuccessful. After that, the kidnap plan became an assassination plan, in hopes of ending the war, and allowing the Confederate States of America to continue as a government separate from the Union.
John Wilkes Booth organized the plan to kill President Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth planned on shooting President Lincoln in the back of the head in the balcony of Ford's Theater.
Booth and his group planned to kidnap Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
Booth and his group planned to kidnap Abraham Lincoln.
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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.
John Wilkes Booth's original plan was to kidnapp Lincoln and hold him hostage.
he planned to kill the vice president and the secretary of state