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    John Wilkes Booth was a noted actor and Confederate sympathizer. He had planned initially to kidnap President Lincoln, hoping to exchange him for Confederate prisoners. Plans were made among a small group of conspirators to carry out the kidnapping in March 1865, on a day when Lincoln was scheduled to attend a function at a Washington hospital. At the last moment, the president’s plans were changed and Booth’s plot was neutralized. On April 11, two days after Lee`s surrender, Lincoln spoke to a…

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    Abraham Lincoln's Ghost

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    Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is amongst one of the most famous apparitions experienced in The White House. After Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, many American’s mourn in the president’s death. Around this time Lincoln’s ghost began to appear to the public. “Chief of a Nation of Ghosts: Images of Abraham Lincoln's Spirit in the Immediate Post-Civil War Period” by Kimberly Kutz provides the idea that a president’s ghost is long lasting, which may be a reason as to why the president’s spirit is still…

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    her husband, John Surratt passed. Later she found that her son John Surratt Jr. was a confederate spy. This would be a burden to her after the assassination. Mary Surratt’s name was not listed in the Booth Diary as one of the conspirators. On the day Booth assassinated…

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    a play, sitting in a Presidential balcony with his wife to the right. John Wilkes Booth had unknowingly crept into the room and fatally shot Lincoln in the back of the head. He jumped off of the balcony and escaped the theater before…

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    Manhunt is a more reliable book than Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln for many reasons. Most importantly, Killing Lincoln lacks historical information and references. Killing Lincoln doesn’t have a lot of historical information because according to O’Reilly, “books by historians are boring.” In Manhunt, Swanson litters the book with historical facts and information throughout the whole book. Swanson also adds that he used direct trial transcripts and cross referenced using direct newspapers,…

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    John Wilkes Booth, decided to kill the president. After he shot Lincoln in Ford’s Theater, he received the help of a few Confederate supporters, one being Dr. Samuel Mudd. Mudd was guilty of knowingly assisting Booth after the actor assassinated Lincoln in 1865. Possibly the largest reason for Mudd’s sentence was that he knew that he was helping Booth and his fellow conspirator, David Herold. Although the two conspirators’ identity was unknown to Mudd until a few days after Booth and Herold…

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    man sneaks into a theater hours before its opening and quietly carves a hole in the wall. He returns hours later as a well known public figure to observe the art. What happens next will forever alter the course of American history. How John Wilkes Booth pulled off the most compelling and famous assassinations in history is successfully written about in “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. In “Killing Lincoln,” the truth about the President’s assassination come to light. The…

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    the nation had just come out of the Civil War. Booth was an actor, trained to lead a double life while Lincoln studied hard and had the skills to unite the country again. If this were a play, both men clearly played the right characters. The man who shot Abraham Lincoln was named John Wilkes Booth. He was born on May 10, 1838 near Bel Air, Maryland into a family of actors, according to the author of “Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination” on history.com. Booth was raised on a farm and attended…

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    two. This section begins on April 10 with the aftermath and celebration of the Union victory in the Civil War. John Wilkes Booth is plotting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, along with other members of his cabinet. Booth had been planning to kidnap Lincoln during the Civil War to help the Confederacy, but he has since shifted the plans. There are three people other than Booth that are involved with his conspiracy. Part three, “The Long Good Friday,” begins at seven a.m. on Friday, April 14.…

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    If John Wilkes Booth had been raised in the North and not the South, he would not have had such extreme views and would not have killed Abraham Lincoln. One could argue that something like this is predestined in a person, or that nature comes before nurture. However, the way Booth was raised clearly had a big part in leading up to his attempted kidnapping and following that, his assassination of America’s sixteenth president. His views radically contradicted those of Lincoln, and when, where,…

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