John Wilkes Booth

By Evan Niernberg

  • Booth Finds out that Lincoln is Coming to the theater

  • Lincoln Gets Shot

  • Lewis Powell attacks Secretary of State William Seward

  • Booth Arrives at Dr. Mudd's house

  • Lincoln Dies

  • Booth hides in Pine thicket

  • Atzerodt arrested

  • Booth in Virginia

  • Soldiers surround the barn in the early morning hours. Herold surrenders, but Booth refuses and troops light the barn on fire. Booth is shot in the neck, and he dies at sunrise

  • Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are hanged at the Old Arsenal Prison in Washington, D.C.

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