During the early 1800s, Junius Brutus Booth and family rose to great fame because of their well-known acting. The Booth family contained ten children, and most of them majored in theater. Though everyone majored in theater, only two of Junius’ children became very prosperous, Edwin and John Wilkes. Edwin and John were two of the most popular and well-known actors in that duration. Though brothers and were raised in the same environment, the brothers had turned out to be very different, in this case Edwin continued onto his acting path while John followed his political stance and assassinated president Lincoln. Booth’s motives were his political stance, his stance on the outcome of the war, and his experiences prior to the assassination. On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot and killed president Abraham Lincoln. One of his motives is believed to be his political stance. John was an advocate for the South, for he had believed in their political conceptions and the way everything was carried out. In the text by Hamner, it verbalizes, “A supporter of slavery, Booth believed that Lincoln was…show more content… Before John had decided to join the South, he had watched the hanging of abolitionist, John Brown. James Cross Giblin writes, “As a supporter of the South and all it stood for, John firmly believed that Brown had got his due. At the same time, he couldn’t help but be impressed by the courageous way that Brown had met his death” (Giblin 57). John Brown had died for what he believed in and tried to serve the cause he followed. By watching Brown get hung for what he believed in, this could have inspired Booth to do the same. Booth believed that Lincoln’s ideas were wrong and the South should be restored back of its glory and still be able to hold slaves. From that point on, Booth thought taking action in what you believed in was the right thing to do, which lead him to killing Abraham
