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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Why John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln . (search)
Why John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln.
Committed the crime, not to aid the South, but to seek revenge for have been content to state the simple fact that J. Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Lincoln in Ford's The ith the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. * * *
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Mr. Lincoln was a citizen of f the South or of the Southern cause that prompted Mr. Booth's crime, but rather a spirit of revenge for the pe oln had done in having Captain John Y. Beall, one of Booth's friends, unjustly executed.
The editor of the C martial and sentenced to death as a pirate.
John Wilkes Booth interested himself in his behalf; obtained fro under instructions from the Confederate government.
Booth went to Washington armed with these documents and se Governor's Island, N. Y., on Feb. 24, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth was not a well-balanced man at his best.
Doub er Captain Beall was hanged, the plot was executed.
Booth shot Mr. Lincoln at Ford's theatre, Washington, excl
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)