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Booth's inital plan was to kidnap Lincoln and use him to ransome for the release of some of his fellow confederate soldiers.
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Booth and his team met at a restraunt a couple blocks from Ford's theater and began plotting to intercept the President when he and his wife were on their way to a play, Still Water Runs Deep, and kidnap Lincoln.
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Booth's kidnapping plan fails when instead of going to the play as planned, the President gives a speech and presents a captured flat to the 140th Indiana Regiment.
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Lincoln plans to go to the play Our American Cousin with his wife Mary the following evening.
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Booth put together a team and on this night, his team set out on assassination attempts of government officials, Booth giving himself the task of killing Lincoln. George Atzerodt was to kill the Vice President, Andrew Johnson, but failed, and Lewis Powell was to kill the Secretary of State, Seward.
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At 10:20 at night, Powell entered Seward's home with a knife, attacking the Secretary of State. He lived, though severely injured, and was able to keep his position as Secretary of State.
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Booth creeps up to Lincolns box in Fords theater and proceeds to shoot Lincoln in the back of the head, and jump down the balcony to make a quick escape.
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Lincoln Assassination 7:22 Abraham Lincoln dies.
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Booth's team is caputred and taken to jail.
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Booths team is captured and taken to jail.
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12 days after killing Lincoln, Booth was discovered hiding in a barn. They forced Booth out by igniting the barn and caught him when he fled.
