"You have the right to remain silent...":the arrest of John Wilkes Booth

Let's assume that by some cosmic miracle John Wilkes Booth gets taken alive instead of burning to death in a farmhouse after he shot Lincoln. Two questions for you to answer:
1)How does the arrest come about, and
2)What's the impact of his trial on a Civil War-ravaged America?
 
He trips and is knocked unconcious in the Theatre itself.

I wonder if being able to convict the ring leader would have been good news for some of those on the fringes of Booth's plans and meant that they got to live and or avoided jail unlike OTL.

Other query is this. Booth would have clearly tried to justify his act based on his racist beliefs.

Would that tend to further spread the hatred or, as I hope, tend to discredit many nasty ideas that this guy had.


By the way the politically clever thing would have been to sentence him to life without parole with some form of hard labour which was also humiliating- but I doubt that it would have been politically possible.
 
He reveals the conspiracy behind the murder, a Vatican-sponsored hit attempting to destroy Protestant America. In response, the U.S. invades the Papal State. It is admitted into the Union and becomes the 37th state.
 
He reveals the conspiracy behind the murder, a Vatican-sponsored hit attempting to destroy Protestant America. In response, the U.S. invades the Papal State. It is admitted into the Union and becomes the 37th state.

somebody been reading Jack Chick :D
 
Let's assume that by some cosmic miracle John Wilkes Booth gets taken alive instead of burning to death in a farmhouse after he shot Lincoln.

Actually, he was shot to death in a barn, against orders, by a Union soldier, Sergeant Boston Corbett. Incidentally, although not germaine to the issue at hand, it may interest you to know that Sergeant Corbett later was committed to an asylum after he tried to gun down the entire Kansas State Legislature with two Colt revolvers. So he obviously wasn't the most stable sort. :eek:


Two questions for you to answer:
1)How does the arrest come about, and

Sergeant Corbett obeys orders, and Booth is taken alive in the barn.

2)What's the impact of his trial on a Civil War-ravaged America?

He would probably be tried, and hanged, along with the other conspirators. The trial might be a bit more sensational than the OTL version, but other than that, not much changes.
 
somebody been reading Jack Chick :D

Afterwards, the French Communards and Muslim Ottomans declare war on the U.S., because communism and Islam were both invented by the Pope. And of course Spain under an anachronistic Phalange regime, because so was fascism. The U.S. takes heavy hits, but then miraculously survives thanks to the assistance of God-fearing Queen Victoria and the British Empire. Then everyone parties in Israel.
 
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