Late in life, he was unwittingly helped by Peanuts Burroughs, although part of his plan was foiled by the incompetence of George Atzerodt.
Theodore J. Nottingham's The Curse of Cain asserts that this man fled to Japan, although his body was officially identified on the USS Montauk. Late in life, he was unwittingly helped by Peanuts Burroughs, although part of his plan was foiled by the incompetence of George Atzerodt. His meetings at the house of Mary Surratt resulted in her execution, and his other accomplices included Lewis Powell, a man thwarted by his victim's neck brace. Eventually killed by Boston Corbett at Garrett's Farm in Virginia, for 10 points, identify this actor who shouted "sic semper tyrannis" after assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
Theodore J. Nottingham's The Curse of Cain asserts that this man fled to Japan, although his body was officially identified on the USS Montauk.
John Wilkes Booth