atzerodt has just concluded. the attack that booth outlined is to go into effect immediately. at 10:15 louis powell is to kill secretary of state seward in his home on lafayette square. david herold will guide powell out of the city via the navy yard bridge. george atzerodt is to kill vice president johnson at the kirkwood house hotel. the only change in the plan is that booth will not be attending aladdin at grover s. hello, john. he will kill lincoln at ford s theater. it s still early in act two. booth has calculated that the appointed time of 10:15 will fall at the beginning of act three of our american cousin and it will be an intermission between the acts. booth retrieves his horse from
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
tell me! [sobbing] tell me, is he alive? tom hanks: at 10:35, 20 minutes after shooting the president, booth arrives at the navy yard bridge, his escape route into maryland. sgt. silas t. cobb of the 13th regiment massachusetts heavy artillery is on sentry duty. sgt. silas cobb: halt! who goes? john wilkes booth: a friend. sgt. silas cobb: name? john wilkes booth: my name is booth. sgt. silas cobb: where from? john wilkes booth: i m from the city. sgt. silas cobb: where are you headed? john wilkes booth: down home, charles county. sgt. silas cobb: what town? john wilkes booth: i don t live in a town. i live near beantown. sgt. silas cobb: i don t know where that place is, friend. but do you know it s against the law to cross here after nine o clock? what is your object to be in town so late when you got so far to travel? john wilkes booth: it is a dark road. i thought if i waited til now i should have the light of this moon to help me see my way.
tom hanks: minutes after john wilkes booth crosses the navy yard bridge, sergeant cobb stops david herold, riding a gray roan horse. herold asks if a rider has passed here and cobb tells him, yes, and lets him pass. david herold s job on april 14th is to guide lewis powell out of washington after killing secretary of state seward. but hearing the cries of murder from seward s house. fanny seward: murder! he s killing my father! tom hanks: herold flees the scene, not waiting for powell. he catches up with booth at soper s hill, eight miles from washington. and it s a little after midnight when they arrive at a safe house for confederate spies. [banging on door] david herold: for god s sake, lloyd, make haste and get the things! tom hanks: a tavern where weapons have been stored. david herold: lloyd, the things! tom hanks: a tavern owned by the mother of confederate courier john surratt.