Hero to who? The abolitionist Republicans? Nobody profited more than they for his death. How did Booth do the deed and get clean away in a city swarming with Union troops, with the heaviest fortifications and security in the nation? John Wilkes Booth was engaged to Lucy Hale, the daughter of Senator John P. Hale from New Hampshire, an abolitionist and with that tie you can conjure up heeps of conspiracy theories.

Do you see any statues to Booth in the South? Do you see and schools named for him? You won't, nobody likes a back shootin war dodger.

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David Upton