Booth's Mental health

[MaddieM]

(07-31-2015 07:43 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Maddie, the only thing I can think of is something I read in Theodore Roscoe's The Web of Conspiracy. Roscoe wrote, "One day (we are told) a woman spy disguised in widow's weeds, heavily veiled, walked into Lincoln's office and tried to poison him with a kiss. Smallpox. The story may be apocryphal, but the President did, in fact, contract a mild case of varioloid."

I have another question. Could it at all be feasible that members of Lincoln's own cabinet might have plotted his death?