John Wilkes Booth was a 19th Century Hollyweirdo. Seems these show people tend to like the idea of assassination.
TBS is an entirely comedy network. Why are they playing this particular action shoot-em-up?
In the days after the Lincoln assassination the government actually investigated real conspiracies rather than ignoring the real ones while making up phony ones.
If our current “intelligence agencies” went back in time they would be trying to find John Wilkes Booth’s secret ties to the Czar.
“Seems these show people tend to like the idea of assassination.”
Most people have a very simplistic view of the world. Instead of seeing titanic structural forces like changing demographics, changing distributions of wealth, immigration and the like as causing events, they focus on one individual and assign blame for things not being the way they’d like. Gavrilo Princip, who shot Arch Duke Ferdinand, for example, was by all accounts incompetent as a man. He understood so little that he shot the one man most likely to grant him exactly what he wanted, a true partnership in the empire for his people. I read an analysis of about a hundred high profile assassinations, starting with Julius Caesar. In not one case did the assassination accomplish what the assassin wanted. In most cases, the opposite happened.