John Wilkes Booth

By Ellen Scharf

  • Booth visited Bryantown tavern in southern mary land

  • Booth plans to kidnap Lincoln

  • Richmond, virginia fell to Union forces

  • General Lee and the Northern Virginia army surrendered to Union General Grant

  • Lincoln's speech makes booth mad

  • Booth gets his conspirators to plan to strike aganist Lincoln

  • Booth plans another mission to kill the union gvt's top leaders

  • Booth shot Lincoln and stabed Rathbone's arm

  • Booth plans to slip into the theater

  • Booth, Harold, and Jones went to escape by boat and ended up bacl in Virginia

  • Booth dies