“ I am determined to be a villain” - John Wilkes Booth. This is a quote from John Wilkes Booth before he wrote his final diary entry. In his diary he was explaining that he wasn’t a villain for assassinating Abraham Lincoln but was astonished of the county’s reflection of it.There were many more factors that led John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, but just three were the most important. The first factor that led John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln was his hatred for the North. In Chasing Lincolns Killer Booth stated“ The South is avenged.” This is what he said after he stabbed Major Rathbone and shot Abraham Lincoln. According to his (Booth’s) diary he also stated.”I struck for my country and that alone.” -
