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Booth plots to kidnap Lincoln and hold him for ransom for Confederate Army Prisoners.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders at the Appomattox Courthouse.
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At 10:13 pm John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head.
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Booth looks for an escape route
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On Easter Sunday mourners go to church and grieve.
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He has a funeral service held at the White House
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They get to Virginia with the help of Confederate soldiers.
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Booth refuses to surrender to the troops and is shot in the neck.
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Eight people will stand trail for the president's murder, four will be found guilty and be sentenced to death by hanging.
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Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt are hanged.
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Lincoln delivers his speech in front of 50,000.
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John is captured in Alexandria, Egypt. He was acquitted with a hung jury. Survives another 50 years.
