John+Wilkes+Booth+5


 * Assassanated Abraham Lincoln
 * Led the group who aided the confederacy
 * The group panned to the top Union officials
 * Booth shot Lincolnin his ungaurded box at Ford's Theater in D.C. on April 14,1865
 * Army tracked him down to a tobacco barn in Virginia
 * He refused to surender and they set the barn on fire
 * Booth was shot to death by himself or a soldier
 * Lincoln, unconsious, was carried to a bording house
 * Lincoln died in the morning
 * Lincoln's funeral train took 14 days th get back to Springfeild Illinois, his hometown

http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln72.html

American Studies Textbook