The Conspiracy

CBS Radio Mystery Theater "The Conspiracy" is a Mystery from Wednesday, March 26, 1980.

Booth, an actor who won fame for his Shakespearean roles and an ardent Confederate sympathizer, first tried to abduct President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, there to hold him until the North gave up the war. When that failed, Booth, a few weeks later, managed to enter the presidential box at Washington’s Ford Theater unobserved, to shoot and kill the president. How he plotted both these incidents is dramatized in this broadcast.