John Wilkes Booth, a twenty-six-year-old stage actor, was a bitter and dissatisfied young man. He was angry at President Lincoln for emancipating the slaves, and angry that the Confederates had lost the war. Booth and his group of co-conspirators hatched up a plan to kidnap the president, and deliver him to the Confederates as a bargaining chip to free prisoners. Later, when circumstances changed, he ended up altering his plan – Booth decided he was going to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. This ebook is about who John Wilkes Booth was in his youth, the events of the assassination, and what happened when he went on the run afterwards