 But I wonder after John Wilkes Booth goes after Lincoln, what was the reaction all around the country? Well, Wilkes thought he was going to be a hero. Yeah. And it didn't quite work out that way for him. No. And what he ended up doing was putting the South in a bad spot, too. If Lincoln had been able to stay in office, Reconstruction would have been very different. Who's the anarchist that killed McKinley?