Assassination or "work-place violence?"

[Susan Higginbotham]

(04-13-2016 02:10 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Yes I think so. I hadn't remembered where I had read that. Now I've re-read it several times- maybe it's me but I'm not seeing it as satire. I hope it is!

I think these lines are written firmly with tongue in cheek:

"But people at the time probably just weren’t sophisticated enough to understand the nature of the workplace relationship between actors and regular members of the audience.

Americans leaped to the conclusion that Booth killed Lincoln over lingering resentment related the Civil War.

This ‘rush to judgement’ prompted a predictable jingoistic response from a blood thirsty American public who were left with the impression that Booth and many of his fellow confederates weren’t peaceful lovers of the union."