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read the book MANHUNT. It describes well all the characters with the plot to murder The President and none of it was honorable and Lincoln was NOT anything like Stalin.
It is a fairly thick book, paperback. It follows BOOTH from his scheme clear through to the end.. and his collaborators. I have several other books beside that and maybe 75 more about the civil war alone.
Here's the thing. WHAT you applaud BOOTH for doing. WHAT DID HE DO?
He MURDERED a man after the war was basically over, in cold blood and the funny part is, BOOTH was NEVER affected by the war nor hurt economically, lost his home, or anything else. he became a well known actor in Washington as you know. He prospered. So why did he really choose to murder a person like he did?
Is it okay for you or I to go out and do the same to a political candidate we do not like?
Why not?
Lincoln was the elected President of the United States and had to dealw iththe problems of those days.
Wish he would have been hanged instead of being the coward that he was and running like a scared boy and hiding in a barn. He finally got shot. All the others that were in in the conspiracy were hanged. They should have been burned to a crisp afterward and thrown into the river for the fish to eat.
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