Who was involved in the assassination attempt besides John Wilkes Booth?
-6th grade students at Pine Street Elementary, Wayland, MI It is difficult to say for sure exactly how many people were involved in the Lincoln assassination or exactly who they were. What we can say for sure is that in addition to John Wilkes Booth (who murdered the president), Lewis Powell attempted to murder Secretary of State William Seward, David Herold waited outside Seward’s home when Powell entered the house and attempted to kill the secretary of state & he then met up with Booth outside of Washington, DC on the night of April 14, 1865 and rode with Booth until they were surrounded by Union soldiers while hiding in a tobacco barn on the farm of Richard Garrett near Port Royal, VA, and George Atzerodt had been assigned the job of murdering Vice-President Andrew Johnson (although he did not make the attempt on Johnson’s life). These four men were clearly involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, along with Andrew Johnson, and William Seward. Beyond Booth, Powell, H
