Grand Master Mind Plot
By Jacob , Kaiyah , Jalyn , and CJ
Booth Worked With Many People Throughout his Confederate Career
Booth had many conspirators. The people relevant to Booth is Lewis Powell,George Atzerodt,Mary Surratt and David Herold. Booth joined many groups that supported slavery, raids, executions, and captures of Union agents/allies. Booth was also a secret agent for the confederacy. This would help Booth to get conspirators who were loyal.
Booth Spent a Lot of Time Planning the Assassination
Booth spent a lot of time planning the assassination of Lincoln. It took Booth a whole month to plan the assassination. He even originally had a plan to kidnap Lincoln in return for confederate prisoners of war. Booth has at least 6 known conspirators for the kidnapping.Lincoln did not show up on time to be kidnapped so Booth gave up on that plan.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln and was a reknowned actor of his time. He is the leader of the extremists that set out to murder the president, vice president, and secretary of state.
Abraham Lincoln
He was our 16th president and assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He was the leader of the Union and supporter of civil rights and equality.
Counterclaim 1
Booth went to military academy when he was younger. This allowed him to have the right skills to perform his mission by himself. It is impossible for Booth to be able to do this alone because Booth had three different targets in three different places. Booth planned his assassinations all on the same night so there is no way Booth could have traveled to the different locations without being detected in one night.