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robert e. lee s surrender with a grand illumination. candles burn in every window, public and private. fireworks and cannon volleys proclaim victory. on april 13th, booth visits grover s theater and learns that a production of aladdin! or his wonderful lamp is planned for the next night, april 14th. good friday. and that the president has been invited to attend. booth arranges for a ticket to the box adjoining the president s and informs his co-conspirators that the plan has changed from kidnapping to murder. that on april 14th, lewis powell will kill secretary of state seward. david herold will accompany powell and lead him across the navy yard bridge and into maryland. george atzerodt will kill vice president johnson in his room at the kirkwood house hotel. and booth will kill lincoln during the
been ordered to southern maryland in search of lincoln s killer. what will soon become the largest manhunt in american history at that time begins with troops searching scarcely four miles from dr. mudd s farmhouse. lost in the dark and on the edge of the zekiah swamp, booth and herold have promised to pay tobacco farmer oswell swann $12 to lead them to the home of samuel cox, a leader in the confederate underground. john wilkes booth: how is it that you know captain cox? oswell swann: oh, we all know captain cox, sir. he a true man of the south. he a hard man. beat a nigger to death hisself. mmm-hm. david herold: you, you a free nigger? oswell swann: oh, we all s free now, sir, thanks to marse lincoln. lawd rest his soul. but i ain t no nigger. i s a we-sort. david herold: what? oswell swann: a we-sort.
and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. tom hanks: booth is there. a face in the crowd on the steps of the east portico. on march 17th, 1865, booth and two boyhood friends, along with confederate agent lewis powell and smuggler george atzerodt, lay in wait along the president s route to visit the campbell military hospital. but lincoln cancels the hospital visit. booth then travels to new york, where he learns of a confederate plot to kill lincoln by planting explosives in the white house. [faint crying]