Replying to someone saying Booths sister said their dad was a Jew and spoke Hebrew.
Asia Booth was pro union and damn near retarded. Her father spoke French. (Did plays in English and French) He and his son Edwin played Shylock in Merchant of Venice. Julius did method acting and was a raging alcoholic later in his life. I can picture him at a synagogue. He once was locked in his dressing room so he bribed a stagehand to bring a bottle of of whiskey near the door hiding the bottle behind his back from the guard and Julius Booth sipped it with a straw through the key hole. He died when John Wilks Booth (praise be his name) was only 14. JWB was part of the Know Nothings party that was hardcore Protestant and anti-Catholic. The plot was to kill Lincoln, Johnson and Seward and decapitate the Union. They shot Lincoln, and stabbed Seward unfortunately he survived.
JWB said in 1864 after Lincoln's rigged election that Abe had declared himself a king. He aimed to kidnap him and later upgraded that to killing him.
His sister Aisa named after where their father thought the location of the Garden of Eden was, and his brother Edwin who saved the life of Lincoln's son, were both pro Union. Edwin forbid John from his property. The 7 other children were all Protestant Christians as was JWB. Had he been catholic he would probably be a saint after slaying the Devil's son.
Lincoln actually survived the shot through the head. (Wasn't a silver bullet). It was the next day that he died while people were praying over his body. It's probably the prayer that killed him. Some say he twitched at mention of the word Jesus. Lincoln let out a large breathe of air as he died and returned to Hell.
He left the US still at war but now with an income tax, conscription, and no free press. The Peterson House where he died still stinks of sulfur.
Ford's theater never topped the dramatic performance of JWB praise be his name. Why couldn't he have another bullet left for Grant?
