Conspiracies About The Lincoln Assassination

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The Conspiracies about the Lincoln Assassination Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States during the Civil War. Most people in the north thought that he was a great president, while the people of the south disliked him for his view on slavery. To celebrate the end of the Civil War, Lincoln, with his wife and friends, went to Ford's Theater to see a production of Our American Cousin on April 14, 1865. That night, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and southern sympathizer, assassinated our president. Booth was caught fourteen days later at a farm in Virginia. But was this all of the story, or is there another reason for Lincoln's assassination? James L. Swanson said that when the Confederacy was lost and the war was almost over, Booth was beginning to become depressed. As the Confederate capitol, Richmond, was falling into the hands of the Union; Lincoln traveled there and took a seat where Jefferson Davis, the last Confederate President, used to occupy. At Appomattox, where General Robert E. Lee surrendered, Lincoln gave a speech about how he would give blacks freedom and the right to vote. Those last few days of the war made Booth become a mad and wicked person, and a few days later, Lincoln would be shot (9). The Biography of Mary Surratt, Lincoln Assassination Conspirator, tells about Mary Surratt, a married, Catholic woman convicted of treason, conspiracy, plotting, and murder of our president. Her family had a farm, general store, gristmill, tavern, and a post office. The Surratt family was a Confederate sympathizer and therefore, welcomed other Confederate sympathizers. When she was tried for being part of the conspiracy, the full extent of the family’s involvement in the Confederate activities was not known. At the trial, evidence was introduced that weapons and cash for Confederate agents were stored at the Surratt tavern. Many authors, such as
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