Boston Bombing aftermath, any similarity to the Lincoln assassination aftermath?

[Craig Hipkins]

I believe that Booth was acting mostly from a self-inflated ego that transcended the bounds of reason when he assassinated Lincoln. There is no doubt that he held the Southern ideology close to his heart. However, he must have known (even if it was on a subconscious level) that southern independence was doomed when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. Besides Booth and Jefferson Davis (who was also mentally lying to himself) the leaders of the Confederacy along with influential southerners were smart enough to see that it was all over for them.

I am no psychologist, but my layman's perspective on Booth's mindset would put him in the category of a Persecutory type of delusional behavior. He believed "he" was being wronged, and the people he associated with himself were being wronged, therefore he set out on a course for revenge to settle the perceived wrong.

Craig