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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: nickcarraway
Who Was John Wilkes Booth Before He Became Lincoln's Assassin? Ummmm... Was he... ...John Wilkes Booth?
Is this a trick question?
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04/15/2015 11:07:04 AM PDT
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WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: nickcarraway
Booth was not a madman, according to Alford. In fact, he was politically motivated to assassinate Lincoln. I've never heard anyone say he WAS a madman.
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04/15/2015 11:08:07 AM PDT
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WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: nickcarraway
A very famous actor. I’ve spent a weekend at his childhood home in Maryland which the owners were trying to turn into a museum. They claimed it was very haunted - and it certainly had that atmosphere. Booth had carved his initials with a diamond in the window. It was still there in the 1990s.
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04/15/2015 11:09:09 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: miss marmelstein
It was still there in the 1990s.The Diamond?
To: WayneS
Oh, yes. He certainly had a mad streak. His father was mad. But he was a handsome devil and a fine actor and a friend to many people. I’ve also seen letters that he wrote - he couldn’t spell.
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04/15/2015 11:10:54 AM PDT
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miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: nickcarraway
Booth was able to walk into the President’s Box because he was John Wilkes Booth! I wonder if he signed any autographs on the way up.
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04/15/2015 11:12:57 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: nickcarraway
Who Was John Wilkes Booth Before He Became Lincoln's Assassin? The younger brother of the man who saved Robert Todd Lincoln from being run over by a train in New Jersey.
To: nickcarraway
An actor of some local renown. From all accounts his talents were average.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:14:16 AM PDT
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Bloody Sam Roberts
(Those too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:14:22 AM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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."On two occasions the summary of this article appears to try and associate Booth to those who oppose Obama's own statement of fundamentally changing America. It notes Booth was a patriot who loved America but hated the way he saw Lincoln fundamentally changing it.
Yeah, I'm sure this clear attempt to draw parallels is mere coincidence.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:14:27 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Israel had King Manasseh, America has Obama.)
To: WayneS
Good old NPR saying “who” when “what” was meant.
Never mind taking the liberal tack and going the route of “humanizing”.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:14:47 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: nickcarraway
Well...from some accounts.
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04/15/2015 11:15:27 AM PDT
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Bloody Sam Roberts
(Those too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.)
To: miss marmelstein
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:15:38 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
To: nickcarraway
The author of a new book “April 1865” compared Booth to Robert Redford on a radio interview. There was a story about he traveled back North someone commented about he needing a passport, I guess a CSA one. He commented he did not need one as his face was his passport. Imagine an A list star assassinating the POTUS today.
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04/15/2015 11:17:26 AM PDT
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C19fan
To: nickcarraway
I’ve always found it amazing that most Americans can only name two of the four Presidential assassins...and always the same two.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:19:50 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: DoodleDawg
That incident is but one of many strange overlappings concerning Lincoln and other historic people. There are overlappings having to do with JFK as well, so I have heard.
To: nickcarraway
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04/15/2015 11:24:51 AM PDT
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Old Sarge
(Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
To: gorush
I’ve always found it amazing that most Americans can only name two of the four Presidential assassins...and always the same two.I'm not surprised. The names of the other two assassins are near impossible to spell or pronounce.
Czolgosz and Guiteau?
C'mon, there's no way those two are becoming household names.
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