John Wilkes Booth Did Not Work Alone!

John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.  But Booth's original plan was not to kill Lincoln but to kidnap him.  Booth had many co-conspirators.  One was named John Harrison Surratt, he had been a Confederate spy.

After Lincoln was killed Surratt escaped with his life and went on the run for over two years traveling all over the world, even to Egypt.  Read the interesting story of the wild escape of John Surratt here!