done”- John Wilkes Booth. Little did the society know, the decisive and great, was to kill the president. There were many factors that led John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln.
First, according to John Wilkes Booth he did it for his country. In the diary it states, ‘I struck for my country and my country alone.” It also states that he did out of god’s command. Since Booth thought Lincoln was a tyrant, he would kill Lincoln ,which in the end would make the country better (Booth thought)…
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