John Wilkes Booth
Killed Lincoln
Mary Lincoln
Lincolns wife
Robert Todd Lincoln
Lincolns son who went on to be a successful lawyer
Lucy Lambert Hale
Booth's girlfriend
Laura Keene
Actress who cradled Lincolns head while he was dying
Edwin Stanton
Secretary of War
Andrew Johnson
VP of Lincoln who became a terrible president
Lafayette Baker
Responsible for finding Booth (hired by stanton)
John Parker
Drunkard body guard who left his post at Fords Theatre
William Crook
Lincolns loyal body guard
Ulysses S. Grant
Union general who was planned to be assassinated. He left town since his wife Julia wanted to leave and go to New Jersey
William Seward
Target of Powell who lived seven more years after his attempted assassination
Henry Reed Rathbone
Lincolns guest with future wife Clara Harris in the box at Fords Theatre.
Boston Corbett
Shot Booth
Dr. Samuel Mudd
Helps Booth with his injury
Samuel Arnold
Was recruited by John Wilkes Booth to join the conspiracy to kidnap Lincoln
Michael O'Laughlen
Suspected of aiding Booth in his conspiracy but he decided to not help Booth
Ned Spangler
Held Booth's horse while Booth went into the theater
Thomas Jones
Helped Lincoln and Herold cross the Potomac River into Virginia
John Surratt
Son of Mary Surratt and he was a confederate secret agent that had worked on past plots to capture and assassinate the president
Mary Surratt
Was hung for helping Booth and she was the first woman hung by the US Government
