john Wilkes booth
John Wilkes booth
John Wilkes Booth
The Civil War, slavery, Emancipation Proclamation led to John Wilkes Booth assassinating President Lincoln.
The actor, John Wilkes Booth, was angered by the defeat of the Confederacy. He and others plotted the assassination of US President Lincoln, Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward. Booth was successful in assassinating Lincoln. When Confederate general Johnston heard the news, he was deeply saddened as he knew that without Lincoln as president, the South would be harshly treated.
John Wilkes Boothe actually assassinated President Lincoln but Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell.
When he was chosen to be Lincoln's vice president and then after the assassination on Lincoln he was accused of having to do with the murder
The Vice President, Andrew Johnson.
he was accused for the murder of president Abraham Lincoln
He was hung for assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
He is famous for assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, Charles Julius Guiteau assassinated James Garfield and Leon Frank Czolgosz assassinated William McKinley. Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy, but he was murdered shortly after his arrest, and many people doubt Oswald did it.