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He was an actor and a son of actors. He claimed to be a strong supporter of the Confederate cause but he didn't engage himself on actual actions against the Union until the the of 1864, when he thought to make something against the Union leadership. His original project was not that of killing Lincoln but that of kidnap him and move him to the south.

He determined to kidnap the President during a walking but it was not to be.

Then on Apr. 14, 1865 he decided to kill Lincoln, while his band of associates would have assassinated the Vice President Johnson and the Secretary of state Seward.

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