What's Your Passion & Why

[RJNorton]

One thing that fascinates me about the assassination is exactly when Booth decided to shoot the president. Many historians point to Lincoln's April 11th speech as the trigger for Booth's action. This may well be true, but could it have been earlier (or even later...on the 14th itself)? Several books I have quote Booth as saying as early as 1863, "What a glorious opportunity there is for a man to immortalize himself by killing Lincoln!" Was assassinating the president in the back of his mind for several years? So I guess I wonder if others might have thoughts on the point in time when Booth decided to do what he did.