Cara-Lincoln's+Assassination

= = = = Lincoln's Assassination =John Wilkes Booth toc = John Wilkes Booth was born in Maryland in 1838. He was the son of a famous actor, Junius Brutus Booth, who was constantly away on tour and said to be incapacitated by alcoholism and mental disease. John mostly lived with his mother and became educated at St. Timothy's Episcopal Military Academy. He learned how to shoot and ride a horse. His father died in 1851 and that is when John began acting. He played in more than nine of Shakespeare's plays and was best known for his gymnast leap. His father was always against slavery, but John's perspective on the situation was much different. He encouraged slavery and wanted it to become much more popular. He defended the southerners and began to speak out against Abraham Lincoln. Booth was so tied up in his opinion and actions, he got arrested for saying that he wished the government would go to hell. He an many accompanies tried several times to kidnap Lincoln, but always seemed to try at the wrong time. When Booth heard that Lincoln would be attending Ford's Theater, he decided to take charge. He was through trying to kidnap Lincoln, instead he was ready to murder him. Booth snuck into Lincoln's theater box, shot him and escaped to Virginia. He was found, shot, and shortly after died.

= =

media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=216992451922315624723.0004a28785f069c7d1baa&ll=38.028612,-77.624323&spn=1.736847,1.196736&t=h&output=embed" width="425" height="350" align="right" =Booth's Escape= After John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head, he jumped off the balcony and landed in the middle of the stage. Every one was astonished, and as they all stared he yelled, "The South is avenged!" Booth had broken a bone in his left leg but still managed to escape. There was a horse waiting for him outside, and so he took off. Twelve days later, he was found hiding in a barn near Bowling Green Virginia. A Union Soldier shot him and he said "Tell mother I die for my country" Both of his speeches implied "Tell Edwin that I've beaten him." This is his way of telling his brother he is better. He died at age 27 shortly after he was shot.

=Ford's Theater= Fords theater was place where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. The Theater was featuring //__Our American Cousin__ at the time when the president was assassinated. Lincoln was presen// t through out the th //// eater and play. It was just only five days after the South surrendered to the North. As expected there was lots of tension between the two sides // because of their different views and opinions. //// Ford's Theater was reconstructed // // // // after being destroyed multiple times in August 1863. The new theater could hold over 2,400 people which stunned people back then because of //// the number it could hold was vastly larger then other comparable theaters. Lincoln was accessed through a door //// which //// led to his overlooking b //// ox. He was shoot in close q //// uarters by Mr. John Wikes Booth. //

// After the assassinat //// ion Congressed issued a bargain to Ford's theater. The United States was willing to pay 100,000 dollars in order to shut down Ford for public amusement. //Between 1866 and 1887, the theater was taken over by the U.S. military and served as a facility for the war department with records kept on the first floor, the Library of the Surgeon General's office

on the second floor, and the Army Medical Museum on the third. In 1887, the building exclusively became a clerk's office for the War Department, when the medical departments moved out. The front part of the building collapsed on June 9, 1893, killing 22 clerks and injuring another 68. This led so me people to believe that the former church turned theatre and storeroom was cursed. The building was repaired and used as a government warehouse until 1931.

=Lincoln's Assassination= media type="youtube" key="oUdDLXcbANQ" height="349" width="425" align="right" On April 14, 1865, a tragedy occurred. Abraham Lincoln was in Ford's Theater in Washington DC, watching a play called //Our American Cousin// with his wife Mary. It was about 10pm when JohnWilkes Booth, the man out to get Lincoln, snuck into his theater box and pulled out a gun. He shot Lincoln in the head and killed him instantly. Booth then jumped over the railing and esca ped before anyone was able to find him.

 =Funeral= On Tuesday April 18, 1865, Abraham Lincoln lay in his coffin in the White House. Many people waited outside of the white house to pay their respects to Lincoln. Some people had to wait around six hours in order to pay their respects. Inside the White House, mirrors were covered with cloth and the room was dark. Abraham Lincoln's coffin was covered with a black cloth and there was a silver plate which read, "Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, Born February 12, 1809, Died April 15, 1865." There were flowers from the White House that surrounded the coffin. The funeral began after noon and 600 guests entered. Ulysses S. Grant was seated on the side of the coffin and Lincoln's Family were seated on the other side. The Cabinet was seated at the side of the room behind Andrew Johnson. After the funeral, six white horses brought Abraham Lincoln's coffin to the Capitol. The next day the coffin lay in the Capitol, and 25,000 were there to pay their respects.

=Andrew Johnson= During Lincoln's time as President Andrew Johnson served as Vice-President. Johnson took on the role of president after Lincoln was assassinated, and he was the only senator from a southern state to stay with the Union during the succession. He was also the first president to be impeached. Johnson offered to restore the broken-off southern states to the Union, but radical Republicans opposed this idea because it would leave the fate of slaves to the South. Johnson tried to gain more control of the army but was then impeached. After his term as a president ended, he was elected to the Senate and died shortly after.

=Bibliography=

"Abraham Lincoln Assassinated." // Celebrity Morgue //. Web. 15 May 2011. .

"Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commemoration | Ford's Theatre." // Ford's Theatre | America's Most Famous Theatre //. Web. 15 May 2011. .

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Abraham Lincoln's White House - President Lincoln's Funeral." //Abraham Lincoln's White House, Abraham Lincoln U.S. Civil War.// Web. 19 May 2011. <http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/inside.asp?ID=213>.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">"Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln" Library of Congress. Introduction, Timeline, Gallery. Abraham Lincoln Papers. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrgall2.html (May 4, 2011)

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bates, Christopher. "Booth, John Wilkes." In Waugh, John, and Gary B. Nash, eds.//Encyclopedia of American History: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1856 to 1869//, Revised Edition (Volume V). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHV029&SingleRecord=True (accessed May 10, 2011).

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Ford's Theater in Funeral Bunting." Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. //American History Online//, Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ItemID=WE52&iPin=AHI8060&SingleRecord=True (accessed May 4, 2011).

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Ford's Theatre National Historic Site - Ford's Theatre National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)." // U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America //. Web. 15 May 2011. <http://www.nps.gov/foth/index.htm>.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Knupfer, Peter. "Abraham Lincoln, assassination of." In Campell, Ballard C., Ph.D., gen. ed. //Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History//. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">ItemID=WE52&iPin=DACH0060&SingleRecord=True (accessed May 4, 2011).

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kohn, George Childs. "Booth, John Wilkes." //The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal//. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2001. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAS0064&SingleRecord=True (accessed May 10, 2011).

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">"Reward Poster for Abraham Lincoln's Assassins." Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> ItemID=WE52&iPin=EHCWRI76&SingleRecord=True (accessed May 4, 2011).

= **Notes** =