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)