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[[John Wilkes Booth]] and three co-conspirators were who were 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 Lincoln was a plot by [[John Wilkes Booth]] and three co-conspirators were who were 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. | ||
==Members of the plot== | ==Members of the plot== | ||
Revision as of 09:48, 28 September 2014
The assassination of Lincoln was a plot by John Wilkes Booth and three co-conspirators were who were 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.
Members of the plot
- Samuel Arnold (kidnapping plot)
- George Atzerodt (assassination plot)
- John Wilkes Booth (President Lincoln's assassin)
- David Herold (assassination plot)
- Michael O'Laughlen (kidnapping plot)
- Lewis Powell (assassination plot)
- Edmund Spangler (kidnapping plot)
- John Surratt (kidnapping plot)
- Mary Surratt (assassination plot)