“What Did John Wilkes Booth Have Against President Lincoln?” “ John Wilkes Booth was one of those people who thought the best of the country in the history of the world was the United States as it existed before the Civil War,” -Alford . When Abraham Lincoln joined the election, it infuriated Booth. To John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln was changing the country that he loved into a way that was very displeasing to him. President Lincoln wanted to increase the power of the federal government and liberate slaves, both things that Booth thought was outrageous. His anger was tested further when: the government chose to institute an income tax, the military draft and that the government suspended habeas corpus, a legal protection against illegal imprisonment. The president was changing everything that John believed in. He felt that he had to do something even if that meant assassinating the 16th President.
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Booth was the second youngest of ten children, he was born May 10,1838 on a small farm known as Tudor Hall near Bell Air, Maryland. He was a member of a well known acting family, his father Junius Brutus Booth is known as the greatest Shakespearean actor in his generation and his brother Edwin Booth is the most often named among the greatest American actors of all time. John had a remarkable prosperous stage career, at age 17 John made his acting debut in Baltimore by acting the role of shakespeare’s Richard III (Montagne). He was a good actor but critics stated that he was “ good in the play, but not the equal of his father or brother” (History Net). On November 9,1863, he performed in The Marble Heart, a popular melodramatic tragedy, on the stage at the Ford’s Theater in Washington. Abraham lincoln was present at the tragedy in his presidential box. Accompanying him was his wife Mary Lincoln and a woman named Mary B.
Booth was the second youngest of ten children, he was born May 10,1838 on a small farm known as Tudor Hall near Bell Air, Maryland. He was a member of a well known acting family, his father Junius Brutus Booth is known as the greatest Shakespearean actor in his generation and his brother Edwin Booth is the most often named among the greatest American actors of all time. John had a remarkable prosperous stage career, at age 17 John made his acting debut in Baltimore by acting the role of shakespeare’s Richard III (Montagne). He was a good actor but critics stated that he was “ good in the play, but not the equal of his father or brother” (History Net). On November 9,1863, he performed in The Marble Heart, a popular melodramatic tragedy, on the stage at the Ford’s Theater in Washington. Abraham lincoln was present at the tragedy in his presidential box. Accompanying him was his wife Mary Lincoln and a woman named Mary B.