... for involvement David Herold-23 years old-listened to everything Booth said- was loyal to the plot until the end- caught and hanged for involvement Lewis Paine-20 years old-very big, strong, silent, stupid guy-had no value for his own life- lived to please Booth-ideal for the ... be successful in the war. To carry this out he recruited others to help him. Even though John Matthews and Samuel Knapp Chester declined the offer, Michael O"Laughlin, Sam Arnold, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Lewis Paine still came to the side of Booth. O" Laughlin and Arnold would later drop out of ... th...

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... 's assassination was a malevolent ending to an already bitter and spiteful event in American history, the Civil War. John Wilkes Booth and his group of co-conspirators developed plans in the late summer of 1864 to only kidnap the ... capital of Richmond and hold him in return for Confederate prisoners of war. Booth's group of conspirators: Samuel Arnold, Michael O"Laughlen, John Surratt, Lewis Paine, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Mary Surratt (John's wife), made plans on March 17, 1865, to capture Lincoln, who was scheduled to see a play at a hospital in the ... certain voting right...

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... shot point-blank in a balcony seat of Ford's theatre, while attending a play. He was killed by a well known actor of his time, John Wilkes Booth who slipped by one or two guards, snuck into the Presidential box, and shot the President. After shooting the President, Booth leaped from ... threat to the South. After the death of the President and assassinations attempts to several other officials, John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators became America's most wanted criminals at the time. Lewis Powell, one of Booth's co-conspirators had been directed to kill Secretary of State William Sew...

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