... Ford theater, Booth, having been a prominent actor in several plays, discovered that Lincoln was to attend a performance of Our American Cousin on the evening of Friday, April 14. Booth then conspired with George Atzerodt and Lewis Powell that he would assassinate the president, Powell would kill William Seward, Secretary of State, and Atzerodt would murder Vice President Andrew Johnson. The assassinations ... that President Abraham Lincoln, his wife, and another couple were seated in. Booth entered the box and shot Lincoln in the back of the head with a Derringer at his approximate con...

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... to the confederate army. When authorities raided the lawyers office they found guns, ammunition, and incriminating documents. Along with Dodd 4 other men were accused with conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to aid the rebellion, and conspiracy to overthrow the United States government. Some evidence showed the men had ties to confederate officers and also an aborted attempt to seize a federal arsenal and ... ...

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... of what their southern counterparts thought. These northerners, such as William Lloyd Garrison, thought the south was formulating a "Slave Power" conspiracy. "Now the ultimate goal of the Slave Power plot - was the nationalization of slavery. The first step in the conspiracy was to suppress all abolitionist dissent. The second was to repeal the Missouri Compromise and extend slavery into the territories. The ... ...

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... slavery as a whole and categorized them as an aggressive institution. Whose leaders were easily tempted to spread this cancerous slave institution throughout the nation. This being considered the Slave Power Conspiracy that was addressed by Lincoln, he noted that the party had Democratic ideals while expressing northern hatred against the South's political sphere. Eventually a reconstructed South did emerge from the ideas ... ...

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... assassin was captured only slightly more than 40 minutes after Kennedy's assassination. A few days later, before the story of Kennedy's assassination was discovered, Oswald was killed. Perhaps his assassination was a conspiracy, perhaps it was not. The world will never know....

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