John Wilkes Booth's The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln

Much obliged to movies and TV shows we all have a picture of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, but the picture we see is not the truth. A mass of events happened from the 1600’s to 1877 that marked American history. Events that we still learn about and study thousands of years later. From the documents that forever changed American history, to massacres that killed innocent people, to even an assassination of a former president of the United States. If I could choose an event in history to go back in time to I would choose to be a witness of The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln is an event that caught my attention for many years. The person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln was John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth was a Maryland native born in 1838 into a family of actors. In 1855 he appeared in Shakespeare’s Richard III in Baltimore. Despite his Confederate

Abraham Lincoln had absolutely no supposition of being shot that day. I find so ironic that while Lincoln was attending a performance a man known to be an actor was devised to kill him. Booth slipped into the box and fired his pistol into the back of Lincoln’s head. The simple fact that Booth was a well-known actor did not make the crowd panic when he directed a pistol at Lincoln's head. In my opinion, this was one of the most insane events of American history. Sad to say Booth and his allies planned out everything so precisely. Booth and his allies plotted to not only kill Lincoln but Grant, Secretary of State William Seward and Vice President Andrew Johnson. Grant’s unexpected departure removed him as one of the targets, and George Atzerodt lost his nerve and failed to follow through on his assignment to attack Johnson at his residence in the Kirkwood House hotel. Of all the attacks, Lincoln was the only one who didn't