Talk:John Wilkes Booth/@comment-38.114.202.226-20140516211815/@comment-198.70.165.252-20140521203657

At 11:30 on April 14, 1865, Booth had no plans to kill Lincoln. He was reading his mail on the steps of the theater when he heard that Lincoln would be attending the theater that night. The Knights of the Golden Circle hired Booth to find out when Lincoln was going to the theater so they could capture him. Booth was a lookout and organizer for the kidnapping. He was not going to be physically involved and his presence at the theater that night was not even needed.



It was 11:30 and Booth just learned where Lincoln would be. He had to go to Maryland to tell the kidnappers that tonight would be the night. The kidnappers were told to go to a tavern outside Washington and wait until it was time to put their plan into operation. They had a long wait. A tavern was the wrong place to have the men sit and wait. Some began to drink. When Booth checked in on them just before 5pm, half the men had gotten themselves drunk. The plan had to be called off.



Booth was discouraged and decided to give-up on any plans to kidnap Lincoln and return to acting. He went to see his main supporter and told him not to contact him anymore. That is when Booth was talked into killing Lincoln. It was about 5:30 in the afternoon, about five hours before the killing.



This will be my last post. My IP address has been blocked and I cannot use my home computer to post. I am using a public library computer to make this last post. I have also been banned at the Lincoln Discussion Symposium. It seems that the Lincoln supporters don’t appreciate the truth and will censor those that are willing to tell it. Propaganda and censorship is what they practice. Please do not respond to this or any other post of mine because I can no longer participate unless I go to the library.