Lincoln Kidnap Tries

[Jim Woodall]

I tend to go along with the thinking of Wild Bill. Kidnapping gives leverage points where as killing would more likely incite the North to anger and vengeance (oh geez, isn't that what happened). Even if one still had murder in the heart and accepted that the North had won, a live Lincoln would be a better prize to barter for better terms in a full surrender from the field. Alas, if the escape with a kidnapped President proved to troublesome, one could still just murder him along the way.

I do think that on that day, the plan was murder. They would have needed the wagon Booth had procured and gotten rid of to stand a chance of getting Lincoln out of the city or pass sentries. So, when did Booth get rid of the wagon? Is it not then when the decisions/options had to change to murder?