John Wilkes Booth Assassinating Lincoln Was Theater Just Like His Family

 

As part of an illustrious family of stage actors, John Wilkes Booth was already a familiar figure to many Americans before he entered the presidential box of Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. The Booth name had been emblazoned on playbills of American theaters for decades before John Wilkes fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. Only months earlier, the assassin and his two brothers had appeared together on a Broadway stage in a benefit performance of Julius Caesar to raise money to erect a statue of William Shakespeare in Manhattan’s Central Park.

Thwarted by poor reviews in his desire to live up to his family’s theatrical reputation, the volatile John Wilkes, an ardent Confederate supporter, instead took center stage in an American tragedy. His slaying of Lincoln changed American history and the lives and reputations of many of Booth’s relatives—one of whom unknowingly saved the life of a Lincoln, and another of whom wrote a secret memoir of her infamous brother.

Continued at Inside John Wilkes Booth's Famous Family | History.com

John Wilkes Booth came from a family in the theater. An actor in the theater who moved to the world stage to be an actor in the staged assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This guy was a paid faker to perform in front of an audience. His last performance was that of being a fake assassin of the President. Also Edwin Booth, the brother of John, saved Lincoln's son Robert from falling in between a platform and moving train in New Jersey right before the alleged Lincoln Assassination. I mean come on what are the chances of a Booth saving a Lincoln right before the alleged assassination? 

Government is a scam but the Lincoln Assassination comes across as a offering for the North winning the Civil War. A perfect distraction from the result of the Civil War which was the ending of blacks being enslaved but the beginning of getting rid of the rural southern farms/freedom and the "industrial revolution" of the south. There were more people forced into wage slavery after the Civil War than before. It wasn't just blacks but now whites.