Booth's plot to kidnap Lincoln from "summary" of The Lincoln Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer,Josh Mensch
In the spring of 1865, as the Civil War drew to a close, John Wilkes Booth hatched a plan to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln. Booth, a well-known actor and Confederate sympathizer, believed that by capturing Lincoln, he could force the Union to release Confederate prisoners of war. This audacious scheme was not just a spur-of-the-moment decision; Booth had been planning it for months. Booth enlisted the help of a group of co-conspirators, including Lewis Powell and George Atzerodt, to assist him in carrying out the kidnapping. The plan was to abduct Lincoln while he attended a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C. However, as the date of the kidnapping approached, Booth's plan began to unravel. On the night of April 14, 1865, instead o...
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