Assassin of 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was an agent of the Confederate Secret Service that was the wartime intelligence agency of the Southern Confederacy against the Union during the civil war. This intelligence service was based in Montreal Canada and Booth—who was ardently pro-slavery and against Lincoln's emancipation policy for African Americans, traveled north to Montreal to get a letter of recommendation from the heads of the Confederate Secret Service so that he could enter the clandestine world of confederate covert operations during the war by taking this letter to two pro-Confederate, anti-slavery doctors in Charles County Maryland that were Confederate Secret Service agents. John Wilkes Booth, working for the Confederacy, was a secret message courier and was trained in the use of the Vigenere cipher coded message system. Read—in this informative report, about the various individuals involved in clandestine confederate operations in Charles County Maryland that took part in the Lincoln assassination as well as the getaway after the assassination and how the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Colombia MPDC apprehended Lewis Powell, the man John Wilkes Booth co-conspired with to attempt to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward with a knife at his residence near Lafayette square while Booth simultaneously shot Lincoln in Washington D.C.'s Ford's Theater. Powell was apprehended at the Washington D.C. townhouse of Mary Surratt, the mother of John Surratt Jr. John Surrat Jr. was the only conspirator in the Lincoln kidnap-assassination plot that escaped after this political assassination of the anti-slavery Lincoln occurred on April 15, 1865. Read about the people involved in the Lincoln assassination on April 15, 1865 at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. that were subsequently hung for this terrible act.