Booth's mistress, Ella Starr, and other "unknown" Booth ladies!

[Jenny]

Fascinating speculation, guys! If much of politics is about ego, then John Wilkes Booth would have fit right in!

Gut feeling about the women, Herb? Well, I admit I take a softer stance on Booth in some regards than most historians so my "gut feeling" probably won't be the most popular opinion. I do think Booth was a womanizer and I wouldn't put it above him to have used women at times. But I also think that it's possible he had emotional attachments to certain ones (he certainly appears to have loved his mother and sister Asia very much). I don't know as much as I'd like to about Henrietta's relationship with Booth... but I doubt she was his pawn. I don't think Ella was his pawn either. I think he might have been using Lucy Hale in some ways due to her father's political status but I would like to think he did care for her also. Wishful thinking perhaps.