No need to question this Lincoln conspirator’s guilt

[L Verge]

I don't think many of us would disagree with Kauffman's statement that Booth had thoughts of Plan B/assassination from perhaps the beginning. That was the opinion of James O. Hall also from the time that Mike and most of us met him in the mid-1970s. That does not negate, however, that the original scheme was to capture. By April 3, 1865, I think Booth's thoughts turned to murder. He just needed the right time and opportunity.