Booth's visit to the Surratt Boarding House after the assassination

[JMadonna]

Just as an aside, in his confession of July 6, 1865, George Atzerodt stated, "Booth told me that Surratt was to help at the box, that he expected others in the box." Of course, if Surratt were in Elmira, then either Booth or Atzerodt was lying.

Booth was putting his plan into action and was protecting it with a bodyguard of lies. If he expected others to help him it would have to come from Spangler.

Booth's escape plan in the kidnapping plot was to have someone kill the theater lights. This was supposedly Spangler's job. When he didn't Booth covered it with his Latin ad-lib.