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Who Was John Wilkes Booth Before He Became Lincoln's Assassin?
NPR ^
| APRIL 15, 2015
| Renee Montagne
Posted on 04/15/2015 11:05:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Snickering Hound
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:26:21 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: WayneS
He was known as Johnny Soetero.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:26:49 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Obadiah
Yep. Noticed the manipulative language to plant the seed in support of Obama. O’Reilly’s book, Killing Lincoln, was very enlightening. I recommend it.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:27:10 AM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
(Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
To: nickcarraway
I remember laughing hard when some ignorant journalist decided to do an article about John Wilkes Booth and used a picture of Edgar Allan Poe.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:29:09 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: Obadiah
I saw someone comment earlier that liberals love America, but hate Americans.
To: nickcarraway
'"The old gypsy said [to him], 'You've got a bad hand; it's full of sorrow. Trouble plenty everywhere I look. I see you'll break hearts. You'll die young, and you will leave many to mourn you. You'll be rich, you'll be free but you're born under an unlucky star,' "'
Sounds like something out of the Wolf Man.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:33:15 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
His brother was a big player at the Olympic Theater in Boston. Think of him as John Wilkes Baldwin.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:34:20 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: nickcarraway; Fractal Trader
If only he had succeeded in fracking, Lincoln might still be alive...
John Wilkes Booth: Presidential assassin, fracking pioneer
http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/01/john-wilkes-booth-presidential-assassin-fracking-p.html
(from a previous Fractal Trader post...)
When the well began experiencing production problems, Booth and his business associates decided to “shoot” it. This was a technique that involved detonating a large amount of gunpowder deep inside the well — a non-hydraulic form of fracturing rock.
But their efforts failed. The son of one of Booth’s partners sons reported that “the blast utterly ruined the hole and the well never yielded another drop.”
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:34:46 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: massgopguy
If memory serves, he walked in because the guard was not around. Security was an afterthought as the war was won. I believe Lincoln had a premonition he would be killed.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:35:21 AM PDT
by
prof.h.mandingo
(Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
To: WayneS
The author is a person who wants to make a comparison between the jacka&^ “O” and Lincoln.
AND to make a comparison between Booth and the people who disagree with “O” now....AS IF "O" has some kind of noble stature and is a hero or exceptional martyr.
I get it.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:38:01 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: nickcarraway
Who Was John Wilkes Booth Before He Became Lincoln's Assassin? Before his sex-change operation, paid for by the progressive Confederate States of Organizing for America, he was Joanne Wilma Booth
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:38:40 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Theoria
Sounds like something out of the Wolf Man."Even an actor, pure of heart,
who plays Romeo each night
May shoot the president
when play goes on
and the footlights shine so bright."
To: nickcarraway
"John Wilkes Booth was one of those people who thought the best country in the history of the world was the United States as it existed before the Civil War. And then when Lincoln came along, he was changing that in fundamental ways." - Terry Alford Those ideological differences include increasing the power of the federal government and emancipating the slaves, both things Booth was vehemently against. He was angered that the government instituted an income tax and the military draft, and that the government occasionally suspended habeas corpus, a legal protection against unlawful imprisonment. All these things, Alford says, agitated Booth. "Hmmm.....
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:39:24 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
To: SamAdams76
Guiteau should be remembered more for the crazy trial, if not the assassination.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:44:04 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: massgopguy
Yes but was his brother as big an a-hole as Alec? ;’)
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:47:04 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:47:24 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: prof.h.mandingo
Which of our assassinated Presidents had once said, “Any man willing to sacrifice his own life can probably succeed in killing the President”?
John Wilkes Booth was killed before he could be interrogated. Fatally shot by a soldier who fired without orders.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:48:00 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
To: Obadiah
Baraq has more in common with the guy sitting in front of Peewee Herman.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:48:53 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SamAdams76
Guiteau should be remembered more for the crazy trial, if not the assassination.
There are some arguments supporting Matthew Mann actually killed William McKinley.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:50:40 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Snickering Hound
“who thought the best country in the history of the world was the United States as it existed before the Civil War”
Well, it was.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:51:05 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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