One of its perpetrators uttered "useless, useless" before he was shot in a burning barn at Garrett's Farm.
One participant in this event visited the boardinghouse of Mary Surratt, the first American woman executed. A man was saved by his jaw splint from being stabbed to death by Lewis Powell while this event occurred. One of its perpetrators uttered "useless, useless" before he was shot in a burning barn at Garrett's Farm. That man shouted "Sic semper tyrannis" while carrying out this action during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. For 10 points, what event carried out by John Wilkes Booth led to the death of the sixteenth U.S. president?
One participant in this event visited the boardinghouse of Mary Surratt, the first American woman executed.
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln [accept equivalents involving killing Lincoln; prompt on assassinating the president or other more general answers]