Many people had started to believe that the vice president, Andrew Johnson, had teamed up with John Wilkes Booth to create a plan to kill Lincoln. Booth was said to have stopped by Johnson’s hotel, leaving a note asking if he was home, on the afternoon of the planned assassination (A Vice Presidential Conspiracy), which was very suspicious. The odds of a vice president plotting to kill the president, so they (the vice president) could take their place, is very high. Even Mary Todd Lincoln believed that Johnson was involved also. She had written a letter to a friend of hers about how Johnson was a drunk, and also about how she was suspicious about the note Booth left for Johnson. Many people were led to believe that Johnson had something to do with the assassination. Though there was a plan to kill Johnson, people began to believe that Atzerodt didn’t just lose his audacity. People started to think that Johnson wasn’t killed on purpose, to make it look like he was a victim, instead of a conspirator. The nation was hoping to find solace in Johnson being inaugurated, but instead he pushed their feelings
Many people had started to believe that the vice president, Andrew Johnson, had teamed up with John Wilkes Booth to create a plan to kill Lincoln. Booth was said to have stopped by Johnson’s hotel, leaving a note asking if he was home, on the afternoon of the planned assassination (A Vice Presidential Conspiracy), which was very suspicious. The odds of a vice president plotting to kill the president, so they (the vice president) could take their place, is very high. Even Mary Todd Lincoln believed that Johnson was involved also. She had written a letter to a friend of hers about how Johnson was a drunk, and also about how she was suspicious about the note Booth left for Johnson. Many people were led to believe that Johnson had something to do with the assassination. Though there was a plan to kill Johnson, people began to believe that Atzerodt didn’t just lose his audacity. People started to think that Johnson wasn’t killed on purpose, to make it look like he was a victim, instead of a conspirator. The nation was hoping to find solace in Johnson being inaugurated, but instead he pushed their feelings