John Wilkes Boothe planned on, and succeeded in, killing Union president Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Boothe planned on, and succeeded in, killing Union president Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth organized the plan to kill President Abraham Lincoln.
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John Wilkes Booth
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he planned to kill the vice president and the secretary of state
John Wilkes Booth planned to kill President Lincoln. He successfully assassinated the President on April 14, 1865 and was later captured and killed.
Planning began as a kidnapping in 1864 and by 1865, it had evolved into assassination.
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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 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.
John Wilkes Booth planned on shooting President Lincoln in the back of the head in the balcony of Ford's Theater.
To kinap Abraham LincolnNot really, John Had A Plan To Kid-Nap Lincoln, But Failed, He Had To Shoot Him, But He Had Other People, 1 Stabbed His Wife And Son, And 1 Said He Was Too Afraid. He Goal Was To Kill The Vice President.