Killing Lincoln Sparknotes

How one man would die just to take the life of another man and how that man John Wilkes Booth could have not been stopped. In Killing Lincoln by Bill o'reilly John Wilkes booth can not be stopped on his plan to assassinate the president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln. First the Assassination of Lincoln really messed up the Confederates joining the Union again and made it a lot hard also it put John Wilkes Booth as the number one most wanted fugitive.

Assassination of president Lincoln was a tremendous mistake by John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. This book shows how the Confederate was going to be defeated by the Union and gracefully accepted back into the Union as long as president Lincoln was alive. The Union was closing in on the Confederates very fast once they lost Richmond, then he knew that he must follow through with his plans. When John Wilkes Booth assassinated

Lincoln on April 15,1865 he knew that he was not going to surrender without a fight. When John murdered president Lincoln in cold blood in Fords theatre It show how ruthless he is and what he would do to try to revenge the loss of the Civil War. The Original Plan of Kidnapping the president had very many flaws in it, thats why the resorted to killing the president. John Booth was on the run after that night at Ford's theatre and he knew that he was going to die for what he had done.
After the Assassination of Lincoln and Booth scrambling to get away with a broken leg, really exemplifies how he was on a mission to try to help the Confederates, in the end it outright hurt the Confederates.

After 12 days on the run John Wilkes booth knows that it is the end of the line, when the Union soldiers found him in a farmhouse in Virginia. This scene in the book really describes how determined the Union is to track and capture John Wilkes Booth for the assassination of president Lincoln. Also the it was the first time the United States had executed a woman, by the name of Mary Surratt an accomplice of Booth. On p.232 Secretary Stanton said, “Now he belongs to the ages.” This quote displays how president Lincoln is gone and now John Wilkes Booth is next and how they are very mourned by the death of one of the greatest presidents in United States history. On April 26, 1865 the man hunt was over he was dead, this book displayed how the concept of assassination can put people into overdrive to complete their goal of killing the president of the United States of

America.
The assassination of the president forever change the lives of thousand and thousands to come, and how John Wilkes Booth was willing to die to take another mans life is really powerful. The man hunt of the perpetrator was very high tense and put the whole nation on edge. Also how assassination can change lives and a country forever.