tom hanks: they have arrived at about 1:00 am on easter sunday. after talking until dawn, cox is sympathetic, but no fool. he will put booth and herold in touch with a confederate smuggler who will get them across the potomac and into virginia. but cox will not allow lincoln s assassin to stay in his home. so booth and herold are directed to wait in a pine thicket just across cox s property line. they don t know it yet, but they will wait there for the next five days and four nights. john wilkes booth: davey! don t you know i can t get on? david herold: help him on his horse. john wilkes booth: [groans in pain]. $12? oswell swann: yas suh.
desire was for newspapers. so it is here, in the pine thicket, that booth reads the horrific accounts, the lurid details, and bloody result of lewis powell s attack on secretary of state william seward. fanny seward: [screams]. murder! he s killing my father! murder! help! [screams]. [sobbing].
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
on the night of april 20th, thomas jones leads booth and herold to a boat. the current is strong. there are naval patrols searching the potomac for the fugitives. john wilkes booth has less than six days to live.
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