To begin with, there were many changes of the plan made that played right into the hands of the assassin. The President was supposed to be vi

The final contribution to the success of the assassination was how Booth, before the assassination, left a trail speckled with many clues. These clues were subtle, but nevertheless they did shed little light onto his plans. On many occasions, Booth made his appearance at Lincoln’s speeches because he was “impelled to hear the man he hated”(bishop 52). In fact, at Lincoln’s last speech on April 11, Booth commented, “That’s the last speech he will ever make.”, to Lewis Paine (qtd. In Bishop 53). Then, to set his plan in action, Booth went to Howard’s Stable to rent a horse on the morning of April 14 and requested that it be tied up behind Ford’s Theatre. He next went to Pumphrey’s Stable and reserved a particular horse that he wanted to be saddled up and ready to go by 4 p.m.(Bishop1360. His next hint was quite unsettling. Booth went to Kirkwood House where Vice President Andrew Johnson was staying and left a message for him. he wrote "Don't wish to disturb you. Are you at home?", signed it J. Wilkes Booth, and left it with Johnson's secretary (Eisenschiml 5). Later in the day, Booth went so far as to actually practice the route he would take that night to complete his mission. He even drilled a small hole in the door to the state box where Lincoln would be so he could clearly view the position of Lincoln’s head and shoulders (“Booth’s Movements” [online]). Finally, Booth’s most outrageous clue yet, was that he wrote a letter to the National Intelligencer, a Washington D. C. newspaper. In his letter he informed the newspaper staff of his plans, and how they had changed from merely kidnapping the President to actually assassinating him. He then signed the letter with not

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