Felipe Arraño’s Reviews > Age of Assassins > Status Update

Murdered of Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth’s politics were opposed to his father, and he was racist and he thought USA was a country made for whites, he was an actor (p. 28). He supported the cause, but he neglected to fight in the war (p. 29). He first had a plan to kidnap Lincoln (p. 29). Booth became aware in the morning of 14 April that Lincoln would be visiting the theater that afternoon (p. 30). He and his Confederate associates planed to kill the Secretary of State Seward, Vice President Johnson, and President Lincoln (p. 31). The motives: revenge; provoking fear in the North; rekindling hope for the South (p. 31). Booth had often played at Ford’s theatre, and he has an insider knowledge of the building that facilitated his scape after shooting Lincoln (p. 39). Vice President Johnson passed the night in his hotel unscathed, the appointed assassin Atzerodt slunk home (p. 40). Paine, on the other hand, entered Seward’s house, attacking the Secretary of State and his family- they all survive (p. 40-41). Next morning, at 7:22, Lincoln died (p. 42). Paine and Atzerodt are caught (p. 43). Booth was disappointed, people had reacted with horror to what he thought was heroism (p. 44). It was 25 April when they found Booth in a barn, when trying to get him out, we was shot, and late died (p. 47-49). Lincoln had filed in a folder letters received with threats (p. 51). In 1864, a sniper shot Lincoln’s hat off (p. 52). The courts often either complicit in the violence or were prepared to find mitigating circumstances for right-wing killing (p. 55). If the President, Vice President and Secretary of State had been killed, the Confederates would still have lost the war (p. 55). Paine and Atzerodt were condemned to hanging (p. 57). Lincoln might be considered a dictator since he enlarged Presidential power in an unprecedented way (p. 64).