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==<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">Aftermath</span>==

Twelve days after the assassination, Booth and Herold eventually cornered at a farm by Richard Garrett after being on the run for two weeks. While ~~David~~ Herold surrendered and got captured by the Union officers, Booth refused to surrender and remained inside the barn. After a short firefight, a rebellious sergeant named [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Boston_Corbett?so=search Boston Corbett] crept up behind the barn and shot Booth, severing his spinal cord with the bullet wound being in "the back of the head about an inch below the spot where his [Booth's] shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln". Booth was carried out onto the steps of the barn. A soldier poured water into his mouth, which Booth immediately spatting out, unable to swallow. Booth told the soldier: "Tell my mother I die for my country." Within a few hours, Booth lay in agony. Unable to move his limbs, he asked a soldier to lift his hands before his face. His last words were "Useless, useless." when he asked for his hands to be raised to his face.26-year-old John Wilkes Booth died at 7:29 A.M. In the coming months, Booth's henchmen are tried for the conspiracy to kill President Abraham Lincoln. ~~While~~ two of Booth's childhood friends, Doctor Mudd ~~(doctor who set Booth's leg on the morning before Lincoln's death)~~, and Ned Spangler (~~stage handler of~~ Ford's Theater) are sentenced to be transferred to the Dry Tortugas, Herold, Atzerodt, Powell, and Mary Surratt are sentenced to be executed on July 7, 1865, making Mary Surratt the first and only woman ever executed by the federal government.

Twelve days after the assassination, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold were eventually cornered at a farm by Richard Garrett after being on the run for two weeks. While Herold surrendered and got captured by the Union officers, Booth refused to surrender and remained inside the barn. After a short firefight, a rebellious sergeant named [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Boston_Corbett?so=search Boston Corbett] crept up behind the barn and fatally shot Booth, severing his spinal cord with the bullet wound being in "the back of the head about an inch below the spot where his [Booth's] shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln". Booth was carried out onto the steps of the barn. A soldier poured water into his mouth, which Booth immediately spatting out, unable to swallow. Booth told the soldier: "Tell my mother I die for my country." Within a few hours, Booth lay in agony. Unable to move his limbs, he asked a soldier to lift his hands before his face. His last words were "Useless, useless." when he asked for his hands to be raised to his face.26-year-old John Wilkes Booth died at 7:29 A.M. In the coming months, Booth's henchmen are tried for the conspiracy to kill President Abraham Lincoln. All of the defendants are found guilty on June 30. Michael O’Laughlin, Samuel Arnold (two of Booth's childhood friends during the failed kidnapping attempt on Lincoln), Doctor Samuel Mudd, and Ned Spangler (an employee at Ford's Theater) are sentenced to be transferred to the Dry Tortugas. Herold, Atzerodt, Powell, and Mary Surratt are sentenced to be executed on July 7, 1865, making Mary Surratt the first and only woman ever executed by the federal government.

==Trivia==

*Lincoln watched Booth perform in numerous plays, including one called the Marble Heart at Ford’s Theatre on November 9, 1863. Lincoln enjoyed Booth’s performance so much he sent a note backstage inviting him to the White House so they could meet. Booth refused the invation, later telling his friends “I would rather have the applause of a Negro to that of the president!” According to actor Frank Mourdant; "Lincoln was an admirer of the man who assassinated him. I know that, for he said to me one day that there was a young actor over in Ford’s Theater whom he desired to meet, but that the actor had on one pretext or another avoided any invitations to visit the White House. That actor was John Wilkes Booth."

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*Some researchers have speculated that John Wilkes Booth had a double named James William Boyd died in Booth's place and that John Wilkes Booth committed suicide in 1903 in Enid, Oklahoma, under the alias "David E. George".

* Booth originally planned on [[kidnapping]] the President and holding him for ransom. However, on April 11, 1865, two days after Lee's army surrendered to Grant, Booth attended a speech at the White House in which Lincoln promoted voting rights for blacks; he became so fed up, that it eventually led him to murder.

*Just a month before the deaths Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth, Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham’s son, was saved from falling into the train tracks by Edwin Booth, John’s older brother.

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 ==<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">Aftermath</span>==
-Twelve days after the assassination, Booth and Herold eventually cornered at a farm by Richard Garrett after being on the run for two weeks. While David Herold surrendered and got captured by the Union officers, Booth refused to surrender and remained inside the barn. After a short firefight, a rebellious sergeant named [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Boston_Corbett?so=search Boston Corbett] crept up behind the barn and shot Booth, severing his spinal cord with the bullet wound being in "the back of the head about an inch below the spot where his [Booth's] shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln". Booth was carried out onto the steps of the barn. A soldier poured water into his mouth, which Booth immediately spatting out, unable to swallow. Booth told the soldier: "Tell my mother I die for my country." Within a few hours, Booth lay in agony. Unable to move his limbs, he asked a soldier to lift his hands before his face. His last words were "Useless, useless." when he asked for his hands to be raised to his face.26-year-old John Wilkes Booth died at 7:29 A.M. In the coming months, Booth's henchmen are tried for the conspiracy to kill President Abraham Lincoln. While two of Booth's childhood friends, Doctor Mudd (doctor who set Booth's leg on the morning before Lincoln's death), and Ned Spangler (stage handler of Ford's Theater) are sentenced to be transferred to the Dry Tortugas, Herold, Atzerodt, Powell, and Mary Surratt are sentenced to be executed on July 7, 1865, making Mary Surratt the first and only woman ever executed by the federal government.
+Twelve days after the assassination, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold were eventually cornered at a farm by Richard Garrett after being on the run for two weeks. While Herold surrendered and got captured by the Union officers, Booth refused to surrender and remained inside the barn. After a short firefight, a rebellious sergeant named [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Boston_Corbett?so=search Boston Corbett] crept up behind the barn and fatally shot Booth, severing his spinal cord with the bullet wound being in "the back of the head about an inch below the spot where his [Booth's] shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln". Booth was carried out onto the steps of the barn. A soldier poured water into his mouth, which Booth immediately spatting out, unable to swallow. Booth told the soldier: "Tell my mother I die for my country." Within a few hours, Booth lay in agony. Unable to move his limbs, he asked a soldier to lift his hands before his face. His last words were "Useless, useless." when he asked for his hands to be raised to his face.26-year-old John Wilkes Booth died at 7:29 A.M. In the coming months, Booth's henchmen are tried for the conspiracy to kill President Abraham Lincoln. All of the defendants are found guilty on June 30. Michael O’Laughlin, Samuel Arnold (two of Booth's childhood friends during the failed kidnapping attempt on Lincoln), Doctor Samuel Mudd, and Ned Spangler (an employee at Ford's Theater) are sentenced to be transferred to the Dry Tortugas. Herold, Atzerodt, Powell, and Mary Surratt are sentenced to be executed on July 7, 1865, making Mary Surratt the first and only woman ever executed by the federal government.
 ==Trivia==
 *Lincoln watched Booth perform in numerous plays, including one called the Marble Heart at Ford’s Theatre on November 9, 1863. Lincoln enjoyed Booth’s performance so much he sent a note backstage inviting him to the White House so they could meet. Booth refused the invation, later telling his friends “I would rather have the applause of a Negro to that of the president!” According to actor Frank Mourdant; "Lincoln was an admirer of the man who assassinated him. I know that, for he said to me one day that there was a young actor over in Ford’s Theater whom he desired to meet, but that the actor had on one pretext or another avoided any invitations to visit the White House. That actor was John Wilkes Booth."
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 *Some researchers have speculated that John Wilkes Booth had a double named James William Boyd died in Booth's place and that John Wilkes Booth committed suicide in 1903 in Enid, Oklahoma, under the alias "David E. George".
 * Booth originally planned on [[kidnapping]] the President and holding him for ransom. However, on April 11, 1865, two days after Lee's army surrendered to Grant, Booth attended a speech at the White House in which Lincoln promoted voting rights for blacks; he became so fed up, that it eventually led him to murder.
+*Just a month before the deaths Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth, Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham’s son, was saved from falling into the train tracks by Edwin Booth, John’s older brother.
 [[Category:List]]
 [[Category:Villainous Event]]