Booth and his group planned to kidnap Abraham Lincoln.
Booth and his group planned to kidnap Abraham Lincoln.
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.
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Abraham Lincoln but later he ended up shooting and killing him.
Booth went into Maryland to inform a group of people planning to kidnap Lincoln that Lincoln would be attending Ford's Theatre that night. On his return he was arrested at the Navy Yard Bridge and spent the rest of the day in prison.
Yes, one of the original plans was to kidnap Lincoln
No - and thoughts of Lincoln were first a kidnap plot, not assassination
nobody, he first wanted to kidnap Lincoln, but he killed him instesd. He came up with both both plamnes on his own!
Samuel Arnold, his original assignment from John Wilkes Booth was to help kidnap President Lincoln and exchange Lincoln for Confederate prisoners being held in Virginia.
No, John Wilkes Booth was just one person. The Wilkes Part gets you thinking that it is a group.