[Snickering Hound]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATDhGrhyjU

An innocent victim of Abraham Lincoln and his time machine.

[WayneS]

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

Ummmm... Was he... ...John Wilkes Booth?

Is this a trick question?

[WayneS]

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.

[miss marmelstein]

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.

[DoodleDawg]

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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

An actor of some local renown. From all accounts his talents were average.

[Veggie Todd]

Sic semper tyrannis!

[Obadiah]

"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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Well...from some accounts.

[C19fan]

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.

[gorush]

I’ve always found it amazing that most Americans can only name two of the four Presidential assassins...and always the same two.

[Old Sarge]

Mister Booth’s son...

[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.

[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.

[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.”

[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

[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.....

[gattaca]

I wonder if this author has ever heard of the New York Draft riots in 1863, where immigrant mobs attacked transplanted blacks because they feared their jobs were in jeopardy.

[jmacusa]

Next we’ll hear he kissed babies and helped old women cross streets. He was a murdering coward.

[Zionist Conspirator]

He’s a hero to some FReepers; we know that much.