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Who Was John Wilkes Booth Before He Became Lincoln's Assassin?
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| APRIL 15, 2015
| Renee Montagne
Posted on 04/15/2015 11:05:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Mr. K
What is “hmmmm”? It’s true.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:52:17 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: nickcarraway
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.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:55:27 AM PDT
by
gattaca
(Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
To: Mr. K
Interesting. He had to be referring to the confederacy.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:55:54 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Theoria
The gypsy woman told my momma
Before I was born:
"You got a boy child's comin'"
"He's gonna be a bad one, that one"
"He gonna make all the ladies"
"Jump and shout"
"The whole wide world gonna wonder"
"What this all about?"
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:56:51 AM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
To: nickcarraway
Next we’ll hear he kissed babies and helped old women cross streets. He was a murdering coward.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:05:44 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
To: miss marmelstein
In those days acting wasn’t looked on as a very reputable profession. Oddly enough neither was politics. Stranger still is that in many ways the two are a lot alike.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:11:14 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
To: jmacusa
Yes, actors were looked down upon and the women treated like prostitutes. Of course, there were admired actors and actresses like Edwin Booth and Laura Keene. Edwin Booth founded The Players (a club) in order to improve their lives and their reputation. 125 years and it’s still going strong.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:40:43 PM 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
Honestly miss marmelstein, there are very few actors I ever thought were good actors and decent people. Truth is, the ones I truly admire are long gone. My favorite was Claude Rains. The epitome of the polished urban sophisticate.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:44:56 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
To: jmacusa
Oh, jma! There’s a well-known story that he once knocked down a homeless baby while running on the way to post a telegram. He picked the baby up, kissed it, wiped away his tears and crammed his hands with money. Booth could be amazingly kind and good natured. He certainly turned to the dark side at the end of his life - he was mad and a very heavy drinker and obsessed with the Confederate cause.
The story I told you is relayed in Clara Morris’s memoir. She worked with him in The Marble Heart.
I’ve studied the Booth family for 30 years.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:46:00 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: jmacusa
Love Claude Rains. A bit of a womanizer, though but I never judge an artist by his personal life. I'm in theater here in NYC. Many good people. The trouble always starts when they “make it” and the money and sycophants show up.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:47:48 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: prof.h.mandingo
Booth was well-known at Fords Theater. But you’re right: the guard was not there.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:50:19 PM 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
The latter part of Booth you describe was the the real one, the angry drinker, trust me I know all about that dark heart of the human condition . Everything else in the light of day in ones heart, as it were , is just the ‘’down time’’ in between drinking bouts.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:50:41 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
To: nickcarraway
He’s a hero to some FReepers; we know that much.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:52:07 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
To: nickcarraway
Who?The Lincoln-hating neo-Confederates.
What, you haven't noticed them???
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:55:05 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
To: Snickering Hound
He was also named for the British radical John Wilkes, who supported American independence and for whom Wilkes Barre Pa. was named. He also was the first one quoted in the following exchange,””Sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox,” Wilkes is reported to have replied, “That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace your lordship’s principles or your mistress.”
These guys were an odd mix back then.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:56:42 PM PDT
by
JeanLM
(Obama proves melanin is just enough to win elections)
To: jmacusa
As I said, I’ve been studying the Booth family for 30 years. I hope this link works but if it doesn’t, just google Clara Morris. I’m not excusing his crime - it exploded in the south’s face. I am just telling you there was another side of his personality. This is why no one at first believed he could have done it.
http://www.authorama.com/19th-century-actor-autobiographies-5.html
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:56:54 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: nickcarraway; Zionist Conspirator
To: Obadiah
To be honest, I don't believe Booth - who was handsome and personable - was all that bright. He had very little education. A lot of people think that his illegitimacy (his father was a bigamist) turned him against the father figure - Lincoln being the target of his fury. Freudian to be sure but possible. He certainly took his father's betrayal very hard.
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posted on
04/15/2015 1:08:43 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: elcid1970
Booth saw himself as a patriot to the Confederate Cause—Remember—the war was still very much on. Jefferson Davis was still the president of the CSA with his new capital at Danville. Johnston was still in the field along with many other rebel leaders. Only Lee had surrended just days before the assassination. Confederate ships were still waging war at sea. These were confusing time and its hard for us to know what it was really like.
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