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(Good Friday, April 14, 1865, 7:00 p.m.; during the American Civil War) — Actor John Wilkes Booth met for a final time with all his fellow conspirators tonight, instructing Lewis Powell to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward at his home, George Atzerodt to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson at his residence, the Kirkwood Hotel, and David E. Herold to guide Powell to the Seward house and then out of Washington to rendezvous with Booth in Maryland.

Booth planned to shoot President Abraham Lincoln with his single-shot Deringer and then stab Lt. Gen. Grant with a knife at Ford’s Theatre. They were all to strike simultaneously shortly after ten o’clock that night.