Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Difference between revisions

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{{Quote|And they said there were five, and they said there were ten.<br>Some say there was never more than just one man,<br>who would smile to see Mr. Lincoln dead,<br>in the name of God and Dixie<br>in the name of God and Dixieland.|Tony Rice, "John Wilkes Booth"}}

The '''assassination of [http://real-life-heroes.wikia.com/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln Abraham Lincoln]''' was a plot by [[John Wilkes Booth]] and three co-conspirators assigned to simultaneously eliminating the top three people in the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to sever the continuity of the United States government.

The '''assassination of [http://real-life-heroes.wikia.com/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln Abraham Lincoln]''' was a plot by [[John Wilkes Booth]] and three co-conspirators assigned to simultaneously eliminating the top three people in the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to sever the continuity of the United States government as revenge for the capitulation of the [[Confederate States of America]] at the end of the [[American Civil War]].

Booth's co-conspirators were [[Lewis Powell]] and [[David Herold]], who were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and [[George Atzerodt]] who was tasked to kill Vice President [[Andrew Johnson]]. By simultaneously eliminating the top three people in the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to sever the continuity of the United States government.

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 {{Quote|And they said there were five, and they said there were ten.<br>Some say there was never more than just one man,<br>who would smile to see Mr. Lincoln dead,<br>in the name of God and Dixie<br>in the name of God and Dixieland.|Tony Rice, "John Wilkes Booth"}}
-The '''assassination of [http://real-life-heroes.wikia.com/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln Abraham Lincoln]''' was a plot by [[John Wilkes Booth]] and three co-conspirators assigned to simultaneously eliminating the top three people in the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to sever the continuity of the United States government.
+The '''assassination of [http://real-life-heroes.wikia.com/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln Abraham Lincoln]''' was a plot by [[John Wilkes Booth]] and three co-conspirators assigned to simultaneously eliminating the top three people in the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to sever the continuity of the United States government as revenge for the capitulation of the [[Confederate States of America]] at the end of the [[American Civil War]].
 Booth's co-conspirators were [[Lewis Powell]] and [[David Herold]], who were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and [[George Atzerodt]] who was tasked to kill Vice President [[Andrew Johnson]]. By simultaneously eliminating the top three people in the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to sever the continuity of the United States government.