John Wilkes Booth

Assanation
John Wilkes Booth was the first succsesfull assassin in American history. He assassanated 16th President Abraham Lincoln on April 14th, 1865. After shooting Lincoln, he jumped out of the booth Lincoln was in, yelling “Sic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,” breaking his leg. He was then killed by soldier Boston Corbett in a barn in Part Royal, Virginia. He was shot on April 26th, 1865.

Motive
Booth's assassanation of Lincoln was part of a conspiracy to revive the Confederacy by killing the three most powerful men in the country, he only got to Lincoln.