Booth's Mental health

[L Verge]

Thank you, Bill, for giving a great history lesson that should make sense to anyone who understands that the strategy of war is basically to inflict the most damage as possible to the enemy. The occurence of one event usually depends on what the outcome of the previous event(s) has been. Bill has given you a very clear picture of how the last few months of the Civil War led to dire consequences -- but all within the pervue of war.

Forty years ago (when there were still cowboy and Indian movies on television), I used to ask fourth graders who were visiting Surratt House who the first person was that the U.S. forces went after when they fought the Indians for control of the West. The majority of them knew right away that the correct answer was "The Indian Chief!" Why do we have such a hard time figuring it out?

BTW: James O. Hall once said that he thought the story of Booth being crazy was started by the Confederates to throw suspicion off of them

Juan - To his enemies at that time, Mr. Lincoln was a Marat.