... National Hotel at 10:00 AM. He usually got up late, and therefore arrived at breakfast late. Booth learned from Harry Ford that later that night President Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant would be seeing the play Our American Cousin in a special box designated for Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. Booth had been planning for a while to exterminate Lincoln and some other ... the eight days beforehand. They were not only charged in planning the murder and murdering Lincoln, but for planning the deaths of many more people including Andrew Johnson and General Ulysses S. Grant. Booth was additi...

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... voting rights be given to blacks. Thus, Booth schemed and plotted to assassinate Lincoln instead ("Summary of Assassination"[online]). Then, prior to attending the play at Ford's Theatre with Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant suddenly left town to visit his children("Overview of Assassination"[online]). Once again, it was another change made that allowed for easier access to the President. Had Grant been ... ...

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... officer-left Ford's Theatre to get drinks leaving everything easier for Booth Thomas Raybold-ticket seller at Ford's Theatre-was the one who broke the locks on the Presidential Box Ulysses S. Grant-Union general-won the war for the Union-declined offer to go to theatre with Lincoln-many people went to see him not Lincoln Charles Leale-23 years old ... ...

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... was openly involved in Lincoln's death. It assumed that Stanton was against Lincoln's serene Reconstruction policies and wanted him out of office so more radical Reconstructionist policies could be made. Ulysses S. Grant was expected to attend the play along with President Lincoln on the day of the assassination. Eisenschiml claimed that had Grant attend, the military guards who protected him would ... ...

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