Was there an abortive attempt made by Booth to kidnap Lincoln in Jan. 1865?

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Booth wanted revenge and the assassination grew out of a kidnapping plot. The murder decision came only after the collapse of the Confederate capital and the surrender of General Lee. At that point, kidnapping Lincoln made no sense. It's Terry Alford's conclusion. He put more than 20 years of research into Fortune’s Fool. Why not to take his conclusion (so deeply researched and persuasively argued) seriously. I'm reading his book right now. I don't believe that his conclusion will soon go down in the history books as the biggest fallacy ever brought forth, with equal disbelief as to the "Earth is flat" concept.