Vicarious liability and such

[LincolnMan]

This is a really an informative discussion. Ed, thanks especially for the clarification. Also, need it be mentioned, of course, that Booth did inform some of his "gang" of the change of plans from kidnap to kill? I made a blog post once about Atzerodt-how he could have prevented Lincoln's murder (at the 11th hour) if only he had gone to the authorities. What did he have to lose? He was already guilty in the conspiracy. Perhaps his life would have been spared-and history would have remembered him more sympathetically-and Lincoln would have lived. The whole sad era of Reconstruction might have been so different with Lincoln alive.