Lincoln's+Assassination

Overview
===On April 14, Good Friday, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth. This was a shocking event to the United States. He was the first president in United States history to be assassinated. ===



Original Plot
===The original plan was to kidnap Lincoln. He would be held hostage in Richmond, Virginia. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, hoped he could trade him for Confederate Soldiers. However, Lincoln did not show up where Booth wanted him to, so the plan failed. ===

Shooting
===On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, went to see the play "Our American Cousin." They had not planned to go, as neither felt well. However, Abraham Lincoln insisted and they went to Ford's Theatre. Lincoln didn't have a body guard, but had Rathbone just stand outside the door. At about 10:30, while the audience was laughing at a funny line, John Wilkes Booth entered the box and shot Lincoln in back of his head. Rathbone tried to stop Booth, but Booth stabbed him and leaped out of the box. His leg caught on a flag and broke. He jumped onto the stage and yelled, "Sic semper tyrannis" (this always to tyrants.) Lincoln was rushed to a building across the street. Despite all the doctors' efforts, he died at 7:22 AM the next morning. He was buried on May 4, 1865. ===



Afterward
===Eight conspirators were caught. Four were hanged, one died and jail, and three received pardons in 1869. William Steward, the Secretary of State, was attacked and stabbed, but was saved from what should have killed him and lived a few years after. John Wilkes Booth was caught a few months later in the Garrett family's farm in Virginia and shot. ===

John Wilkes Booth
===John Wilkes Booth was the ninth child of ten children. He was the son of Junius Booth, a famous actor. In November 1863, Lincoln watched Booth in Marble Hearts in the same box he would be assassinated in. Booth was also a Confederate spy. He shot Lincoln as people laughed so they didn't suspect anything. He then jumped from the box, breaking his leg, and escaped on a horse. Booth was shot in a barn in Virginia a couple months later. ===

==Ford's Theatre ==

Lincoln was killed here in 1865. It was reopened in 1968. Today, it is the most visited site in Washington DC.
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Funeral
===Seven days after he was shot, Lincoln's body was taken on a train to Springfield. The body of his son, Willie, was also on board. Willie had died in 1862, but the coffin was extracted and put on board. He was eventually buried by his father. Thousands of mourners came through every day to see him. His body was out for so long, it began to deteriorate. Six-year-old Theodore Roosevelt was just one of the many people who saw his body. When the train reached Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln's body was put in the State Hall. He was buried on May 4, which was a hot and sticky day. Mary Todd Lincoln was too sad to attend the funeral. She stayed in Washington DC to grieve. ===



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**//Lincoln's assassination ( National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets)//**
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