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There may have been some who applauded his act. But I think most understood that murdering Lincoln was only going to make things worse for them, causing the Yankees to be even more vindictive and eager to punish the south than they might have been. And they understood Lincoln was for quickly repairing the wounds and healing the separation now with the fighting ending. If Booth was such a hot-blooded southern partisan, he had had four years when he could have joined the Rebel Army and fought for what he believed in, like everybody else. Booth may have from time to time done some service for the Confederate Intelligence officers, but mostly he made piles of money acting, drank way, way too much, and dated lots and lots of girls.
Perhaps in his everday conversation, he was after all a southerner. He was also an actor that had lengthy professional study in elocution and he could adapt readily to many different roles.
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John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838
John Wilkes Booth was from the state of Maryland. He assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. John Wilkes Booth was killed in 1865.
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John Wilkes Booth had two brothers, Edwin and Junius Brutus, Jr.