Booth's Plan on Killing Lincoln

  • Booth visits Bryantown tavern in Southern Maryland

  • Booth and his henchmen plan on ambushing Lincoln's carriage at gunpoint on a deserted road

  • Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the army of Northern Virginia surrendered to the Union General Grant

  • A parade of a few thousand people had bands and banners and they assembled on the semicircular and in front of the Executive Mansion

  • At 10:00 pm, Booth and his henchmen would throw chaos to the Union government and kill its top leaders

  • About 9:00 pm, John Wilkes Booth was waiting for President Lincoln outside

  • John Wilkes Booth shoots a bullet inside of Abraham Lincoln's head and stabs Rathbone