He totally blew as a negotiator.

	"After some delay Booth said, 'For whom do you take me?'
	"I replied, 'It doesn't make any difference. Come out.'
	"He said, 'I am a cripple and alone.'
	"I said, 'I know who is with you, and you had better surrender.'
	"He replied, 'I may be taken by my friends, but not by my foes.'
	"I said, 'If you don't come out, I'll burn the building.' I directed a corporal to pile up some hay in a crack in the wall of the barn and set the building on fire.
	"As the corporal was picking up the hay and brush Booth said, 'If you come back here I will put a bullet through you.'
	"I then motioned to the corporal to desist, and decided to wait for daylight and then to enter the barn by both doors and over power the assassins.
	"Booth then said in a drawling voice. 'Oh Captain! There is a man here who wants to surrender awful bad.'
	"I replied, 'You had better follow his example and come out.'
	"His answer was, 'No, I have not made up my mind; but draw your men up fifty paces off and give me a chance for my life.'
	"I told him I had not come to fight; that I had fifty men, and could take him.
	"Then he said, 'Well, my brave boys, prepare me a stretcher, and place another stain on our glorious banner.'

Fuck No, John Wilkes Booth.