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- And as Booth left the White House grounds, he spoke to companion and co-conspirator Lewis Powell: "That is the last speech he will ever give."†
p. 8.5conspirator = a participant involved in a secret plot
- At the Herndon House Hotel, around the corner from Ford's, at around 8:00 P.M., Booth presided over a meeting of some of the conspirators he had recruited over the previous months to strike against President Lincoln.†
p. 22.7conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
- In late 1864 and early 1865, Booth organized his own little band of conspirators, loyal to him and not the Confederacy.†
p. 23.9
- Booth and his gang of conspirators — Lewis Powell, David Herold, John Harrison Surratt, and George Atzerodt, as well as Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlen, and others who drifted in and out of his circle — would change cheap talk to big action by kidnapping the president.†
p. 24.2
- None of Booth's conspirators knew it, but Booth had already implicated all of them!†
p. 27.8
- Guards would rush to protect those threatened in the plot, and the conspirators would be hunted down.†
p. 28.3 *
- Herold would have answered that he had not seen Atzerodt since the conspirators parted earlier in the evening to carry out the three assassinations.†
p. 75.6
- He and his little band of conspirators would snatch Lincoln and transport him out of Washington, south to Richmond.†
p. 95.5
- — let fall into the hands of the manhunters was obviously addressed to the actor by an unknown conspirator.†
p. 101.6conspirator = a participant involved in a secret plot
- Booth and his conspirators had to be caught before they vanished into the Deep South, where they would find aid and comfort in the heart of the Confederacy.†
p. 108.7conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
- At headquarters, the interrogator, Colonel Wells, wanted to know what had brought Mary's son and John Wilkes Booth together, about her son's relationship with the other possible conspirators, and what her connection was to the newly arrested Lewis Powell.†
p. 133.8
- He had to investigate the assassination, capture the conspirators, and organize a military tribunal to try them.†
p. 136.5
- Booth was not the only conspirator shocked at what he read in the papers.†
p. 139.3conspirator = a participant involved in a secret plot
- Though John Surratt had been a conspirator in the kidnapping plot, he was not even in Washington on the evening of the assassination.†
p. 139.4
- Atzerodt told him many details about the plot to kill Lincoln, the kidnapping plot, and the conspirators' final meeting on April 14.†
p. 143.4conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
- Following the swearing-in of Andrew Johnson as the seventeenth president, Stanton had issued a reward for Jefferson Davis and other Confederate officials, naming them as assassination conspirators.†
p. 176.1
- Two other captured conspirators, Michael O'Laughlen and Sam Arnold, had already confessed everything they knew about the plot.†
p. 176.1
- His fellow conspirators would soon join him there.†
p. 181.9
- The rapid conviction, sentencing, and execution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators concluded the trial that had lasted through May and June.†
p. 187.6
- Booth was already dead, so four of the eight conspirators who had been put on trial took center stage on execution day.†
p. 187.9
- Original wrist irons worn by the conspirators from their arrest to their execution.†
p. 189.8
- This engraving, from a book containing the transcript of the conspirators' trial, reflects the government's claim that Mary Surratt was at the center of the conspiracy.†
p. 190.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(conspirator) a member of a conspiracy (a secret plot)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)