The Tale of George Atzerodt

[L Verge]

I'm going to let my grandson argue with you, Bill. He recently had to do a paper where he argued and defended his belief that children in grade 5 should learn the basics of what the Holocaust was. He's 14 now, but he has been reading about the Lincoln assassination since he was about 10.

When I see what children are viewing on TV, the web, and video games nowadays, it makes the assassination story look like Goldilocks. I think the point I want to make is that good teachers and parents use it as a learning tool as to how to avoid anything like this happening again. When I did school tours at the museum, I made the correlation between Booth and his men and gangs and their tactics today -- and the idea of guilt by association. I always ended with, "...and choose your friends wisely."