[nolu chan]

Listening in the audience, John Wilkes Booth said: "That means n____r citizenship. That's the last speech he'll ever make."

This story cannot be confirmed and is probably fictional. It first appears from the mouth of Eckert and is attributed by him to Lewis Payne, Paine, or Powell, who might also be called the not positively identified dead guy. At any rate, Powell, or whoever he was, was dead for some time before this story made its first appearance.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Interesting, but Booth can be seen just feet from President Lincoln in that famous photograph of his second inauguration just weeks before.