USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.

Detailed explanation-2: -Montages shows portraits of John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the assassination of Lincoln: George Azterodt, David Herold, Edmund Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Michael O’Laughlen, and Lewis Powell alias Payne.

Detailed explanation-3: -Booth’s full plot included killing Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward. General Ulysses Grant was another possible target. But only two attacks took place on April 14, 1865, with Seward surviving an assassination attempt and Lincoln dying from Booth’s single gunshot.

Detailed explanation-4: -Along with friends Samuel Arnold, Michael O’Laughlin and John Surratt, Booth conspired to kidnap Lincoln and deliver him to the South. On March 17, along with George Atzerodt, David Herold and Lewis Powell, the group met in a Washington bar to plot the abduction of the president three days later.