What Was Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Conspiracy

Was Abraham Lincoln killed by a conspiracy? While Lincoln and his guests were watching “Our American Cousin” he was shot by John Wilkes Booth. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. Lincoln had been the subject of an earlier assassination attempt by an unknown assailant in August 1864. The assassination of Lincoln was planned and carried out by the well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, as part of a larger conspiracy in a bid to revive the Confederate cause. Booth's co-conspirators were Lewis Powell and David Herold, who was assigned to kill

Secretary of State Seward and George Atzerodt who was tasked to kill Vice President 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. On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. . He died early the next morning. The rest of the conspirators' plot failed; Powell only managed to wound Seward, while Atzerodt, lost his nerve and fled. The funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln was a period of national mourning.