Who Was John Wilkes Booth Before He Became Lincoln's Assassin?

NPR ^ | APRIL 15, 2015 | Renee Montagne

[BenLurkin]

Loved it!

[BenLurkin]

He was known as Johnny Soetero.

[originalbuckeye]

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.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

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.

[RinaseaofDs]

I saw someone comment earlier that liberals love America, but hate Americans.

[Theoria]

'"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.

[massgopguy]

His brother was a big player at the Olympic Theater in Boston. Think of him as John Wilkes Baldwin.

[thackney]

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.”

[prof.h.mandingo]

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.

[SMARTY]

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.

[PGR88]

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

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

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."

[Mr. K]

"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.....

[thackney]

Guiteau should be remembered more for the crazy trial, if not the assassination.

[rockrr]

Yes but was his brother as big an a-hole as Alec? ;’)

[Theoria]

hah..well done.

[elcid1970]

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.

[BenLurkin]

Baraq has more in common with the guy sitting in front of Peewee Herman.

[thackney]

Guiteau should be remembered more for the crazy trial, if not the assassination.

There are some arguments supporting Matthew Mann actually killed William McKinley.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“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.