Booth's Mental health

[Juan Marrero]

[To his enemies at that time, Mr. Lincoln was a Marat.
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I agree that that was then a reasonable enough take from his enemies' perspective.

Jim's and Mrs. Verge's posts about war tactics remind me of something my mother always used to say: "in a quarrel people don't throw flowers." The Civil War obviously was the biggest American quarel ever. At least many of the ideas that were disputed then are still relevant--federal v. State control, etc. Think of how little relevant now seem the issues Europeans fought over in WWI!