The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
A) involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.
B) saw John Wilkes Booth convicted of the murder of the president.
C) brought a Radical Republican to the presidency.
D) was intended to bring Andrew Johnson into the presidency.
E) had been planned at the highest levels of the Confederate government.

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John Wilkes Booth was part of a larger conspiracy that aimed to kill not only President Lincoln but also Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward.

The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln