Today I Found Out

The Larger Conspiracy (2019x285)

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Check my other channel Highlight History: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnb-VTwBHEV3gtiB9di9DZQ →Some of→’s Theatre, famous stage actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth approached the President from behind and shot him in the back of the head. With the President slumped in his chair and chaos ensuing, Booth made the twelve foot jump to the stage, injuring himself in the process, and screamed “Sic semper tyrannis” — “Thus always to tyrants.” Pushing his way through the crowd, he jumped on his horse and escaped off into the night. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/larger-conspiracy-failed-assassinations-seward-johnson/ Sources: http://blog.insidetheapple.net/2009/04/assassination-attempt-of-william-h.html http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/08/the-10-craziest-failed-assassination-attempts/william-h-seward http://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/seward-william-henry http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60D15F93C5A15738DDDAD0994DB405B898CF1D3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln72.html http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/booth.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Surratt http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/atzerodt.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Atzerodt