John Wilkes Booth

  • Booth's incorrect plan

    Booth planned to attack Lincoln's carriage and kidnap him but it didn't work out.
  • Booth began to get angry

    Confederate Richmond died which was who Booth supported.
  • Booth's new mission

    Booth proposed that his group should kill the government's top leaders.
  • Booth planned to kill the president

    Booth found out that the president was coming to the theatre he was at. He prepared to assassinate him.
  • Good news for Booth

    He received a letter that said the president will be at the theatre that night.
  • Booth knew where the president was

    Booth figured out where the president was going to sit and the hallway that they would walk through to get there.
  • Started to prepare

    Booth had eight hours to prepare. He got his supplies for the attack.
  • Supplies

    Booth brought a pistol with one shot and a knife as a backup weapon