John Wilkes Booth and Philadelphia's Arch Street Theatre

[Gene C]

I don't agree. Based upon Nora Titone's book, My thoughts Be Bloody, I get the impression that JWB was not that great an actor. Popular, but not a good actor. And don't think this was one bad decision. Shooting the President was a premeditated murder. Shooting an unarmed man in the back of the head was cowardly. This was not a split second decision. At the very least, he thought about this for days, maybe weeks or months. He planned this and it was one long series of bad decisions that most people would never consider doing, and Booth deserves to be despised for what he did.