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Michael O'Laughlen, Jr. (pronounced Oh-Lock-Lun; June 3, 1840 – September 23, 1867) was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in John Wilkes Booth's plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and later in the latter's assassination, although he ended up not directly participating.
- Michael O'Laughlen, Jr., June 3, 1840, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
- Deceased
Michael O'Laughlens's Role in the Conspiracy. Booth recruited O'Laughlen in the late summer of 1864 to participate in the plan to kidnap Abraham Lincoln and take him to Richmond, where he would--it was hoped--later be exchanged for Confederate prisoners-of-war. O'Laughlen, along with Booth and other conspirators, attended a March 15 meeting at ...
Michael O'Laughlen O'Laughlen was a childhood friend of John Wilkes Booth, living across the street from the Booth family in Baltimore. An ex-Confederate soldier and one of Booth's earliest recruits in the fall of 1864, O’Laughlen agreed to assist in the plot to kidnap President Lincoln.
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May 14, 2015 · Michael O'Laughlen, Samuel Arnold and Dr. Samuel Mudd were given life terms and Edmund Spangler received a six-year sentence for their involvement in the conspiracy. In 1869 President Andrew...
Learn about the military trial of the eight people accused of conspiring to assassinate President Lincoln in 1865. See images, testimony and evidence from the trial, including Michael O'Laughlen, who was hanged on July 7, 1865.
Michael O'Laughlen, who boarded at the same home in Washington as Arnold, might qualify as the most forgotten of the eight conspirators on trial. The key evidence against O'Laughlen also links him to Booth's abandoned plan to abduct Lincoln.
Michael O'Laughlen, Jr. (pronounced Oh-Lock-Lun; June 3, 1840 – September 23, 1867) was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in John Wilkes Booth 's plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and later in the latter's assassination, although he ended up not directly participating.
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