[nolu chan]

[Wlat] After 1862 President Lincoln is amply on the record as supporting voting rights for blacks. That is why Booth shot him.

A fairy tale, retold endlessly, is a fairy tale.

[stand watie]

NOPE! it's a KNOWING, intentional, self-serving LIE.

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[Gianni]

[WP]After 1862 President Lincoln is amply on the record as supporting voting rights for blacks. That is why Booth shot him.

[NC]A fairy tale, retold endlessly, is a fairy tale.

Odd that the Booth quote receives full faith and credit from someone who insists a twice documented meeting between Butler and Lincoln 'never happened.'

[WhiskeyPapa]

[Wlat] After 1862 President Lincoln is amply on the record as supporting voting rights for blacks. That is why Booth shot him.

A fairy tale, retold endlessly, is a fairy tale.

You've seen this before:

"Lincoln's address on April 11 triggered Booth's shift from thought to action. In the crowd outside the White House that evening, he heard the President recommend suffrage for blacks who were educated or had served in the Union armies. "That means nigger citizenship," the actor muttered, and he vowed, "That is the last speech he will ever make." He urged Paine to shoot the President on the spot. When Paine refused, Booth turned in disgust to his other companion, David Herold, and exclaimed, "By God, I'll put him through."

-- "Lincoln" p. 588, by David Donald

Booth steeled himself to shoot Lincoln because Lincoln proposed voting rights for blacks. This is well supported in the record.

Walt