redlightning
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What if in April 1865, John Wilkes Booth kills all four of his intended targets and not just Abraham Lincoln. General Grant, Vice President Johnson, and Secretary Seward are all killed the same nigh as well successfully.
In public school back in the 1970s, I was told Booth went after Lincoln because some big thing about not getting a federal job.
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that the best evidence does show that it was a conspiracy involving maybe a (?)dozen persons, including former members of the Confederacy secret service.
Was Grant a target? Who was assigned to kill him?
Was Grant a target? Who was assigned to kill him?
Yeah. Booth planned to kill Grant as well as Lincoln. The General and his wife had left Washington early in the evening of that fateful day, where they encountered Booth himself on the way out (according to Grant's wife, Booth "thrust his face quite near the General’s and glared in a disagreeable manner"). A short time later, someone tried in vain to break into Grant's train car and later sent him a letter expressing his relief that the assassination attempt failed.
Maybe. At elementary schools in both Virginia and in Texas, they favorable showed films of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. The school was at least in favor of de jure equality, without perhaps too much attention paid to actual employment, housing, and education opportunities faced by African-American citizens.I think whoever told you confused Linconln's murder with Garfield's
wiki said:Booth's co-conspirators were Lewis Powell and David Herold, who were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt who was tasked to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson. By simultaneously eliminating the top three people in the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to sever the continuity of the United States government.
Grant was invited to the theater with Lincoln. Julia Grant was not fond of Mary Lincoln so they begged off.
One assassin per victim.
Interestingly they seem to have planned nothing at all against Senator Lafayette Foster.
Was it because he was too far away from Washington at the time? Or could they have been simply unaware that he had been chosen as President of the Senate? I don't know how well-publicised the special session was.