It is all based around one day, Friday, April 14, 1865. It talks about Booth being emotional unstable such as “Booth is on an emotional roller coaster, his spirits rising and falling as he ponders the assassination and its consequences” (167). Booths major assassination will be happening that night. Lincoln is sure someone is out to kill him which he tells his bodyguard “I believe there are men who want to take my life. And I have no doubt that they will do it” (173). Booth gives an exact time of the assassination which will be ten-fifteen P.M. (188). The assassination occurs the exact time Booth said it would happen. Booth also takes out a knife and slices another man which so happens to be Mayor Rathbone. Booth runs off into the night and nobody knows what happens which gives him enough time to
It is all based around one day, Friday, April 14, 1865. It talks about Booth being emotional unstable such as “Booth is on an emotional roller coaster, his spirits rising and falling as he ponders the assassination and its consequences” (167). Booths major assassination will be happening that night. Lincoln is sure someone is out to kill him which he tells his bodyguard “I believe there are men who want to take my life. And I have no doubt that they will do it” (173). Booth gives an exact time of the assassination which will be ten-fifteen P.M. (188). The assassination occurs the exact time Booth said it would happen. Booth also takes out a knife and slices another man which so happens to be Mayor Rathbone. Booth runs off into the night and nobody knows what happens which gives him enough time to