Booth managed to escape and get out of town, but he was tracked down in a barn some 11days later. The soldiers set the barn the barn on fire and shot and killed him he was forced to run out of the barm
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President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
Answer Yes. John Wilkes Booth met with others and formed a plan where several heads of government would be killed at the same time and then planned a method of meeting and the method of escape. Four people were hung for consipiracy of the assassination.
John Wilkes Booth gained notoriety as the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
It is difficult to gauge what Abraham Lincoln's thoughts towards John Wilkes Booth as the president did not stay alive for long enough after Booth shot him to express them. However, being a forgiving and compassionate man, Lincoln would likely have empathized with and forgiven Booth.
Yes. Booth was part of the plot to kill Seward, as well as Lincoln and Johnson.