Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

In April of 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theater. In most cases the assassin is unknown, but in this case newspapers and people talked about him. The guilty person was John Wilkes Booth.

John Wilkes Booth was the son of a very theatrical father and mother. He had unhappily acted for a few years before getting involved in politics. What you may be wondering is why would someone with such a good atmosphere want to do something like that? Well, as I mentioned, he got involved with politics and his political viewpoints didn’t exactly match up with President Lincoln’s.

Something that a lot of people don’t know is that Booth wasn’t alone in this. Some of the other members included, David Herold, George Azterodt, and Lewis Powell. These “Conspirators” were  to take down the government because they were from the south and thought that all people should have slaves. If they had succeed, everybody in the United States might still have a slave.

These  are she links I used to learn about Lincoln's Assassination click HERE, HERE, or HERE.