USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

LINCOLNS ASSASSINATION

[SOURCES]
What happened to John Wilkes Booth?

(A) He escaped and was never heard from again

(B) He was captured outside the theatre and was put in jail for life.

(C) He eluded the law for over a year and then turned himself in.

(D) ** He was killed in a shootout with soldiers just south of Washington D.C.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Herold decided to surrender, but Booth remained in the barn as it went up in flames. Booth was then shot and killed in the burning barn by Corporal Boston Corbett. On July 7, George Atzerodt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and John Surratt’s mother, Mary, were hanged in Washington.