Hi David,

You wrote:

"True he may have but it was a different time and the seed of assassination plots were planted by the media when Lincoln first came to Washington D.C. Others at the time felt something could happen."

The media did not plant the seed of assassination. Individual southerners wrote letters to Lincoln and threatened his life. Two independent investigations in Jan. '61 both concluded there were active plots underway to kill the president-elect as he approached Washington.

You wrote:

"No president had been assassinated before Lincoln, so this was a novel idea."

No American president had been assassinated, but the idea was hardly novel. Lincoln, like thousands of other Americans in the nineteenth century could recite Shakespeare on command, they were quite familiar with the idea.

You wrote:

"The assassination occured in Washington D.C., not in the old Confederacy, by a non-Southerner. He may have not been killed had he visited the South in 1860 or help start the War."

Booth was not a Southerner?

Best,
Sam.