On the night of April 14, 1865, the actor John Wilkes Booth fatally shot Abraham Lincoln while the president, his wife, and their two guests attended a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC. The president was carried to a house across the street where he died the next morning. It was not an isolated act. The same evening co-conspirators attacked other government officers. These many years later questions about those events continue to fascinate us. How big was the conspiracy? Who were the persons involved? Who were the intended victims? What did the plotters expect to accomplish? What were consequences of the assassination?