Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

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Booth stabbed Rathbone in the arm and jumped about eleven feet to the stage. When he crashed to the floor he snapped the fibula bone in his left leg. Many in the theater thought they heard him yell Sic Semper Tyrannis, latin for as always to tyrants. Booth flashed his knife to the crowd and made his way across the stage in front of more than 1,000 people...
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Booth flashed his knife to the crowd and made his way across the stage in front of more than 1,000 people. It happened so quick no one had time to stop him. Booth escaped out the back door and left the city (Lewis, Neely 261-263). The other half of the plan to kill Vice-President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward was basically a failure...
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