The Plot to Kidnap Lincoln?

John Wilkes Booth knew he had to act quickly to save the South. But his original plan wasnt to kill Lincoln, it was to kidnap him. From the Show: LINCOLNS .
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theatre, in Washington, .
Plot to kidnap Abraham Lincoln and take him to Richmond; also Alabama man took out ad in which he offered to kill Lincoln, VP Andrew Johnson and Secretary .
On April 12, 1865, after hearing the news that Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Booth told Louis J. Weichmann, a friend of John .