Comments on: Ford Theatre: The Shot That Launched a Thousand Books and United a Nation https://travelingboy.com/travel/ford-theatre-the-shot-that-launched-a-thousand-books/ Traveling Adventures Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:57:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Tom Joyce https://travelingboy.com/travel/ford-theatre-the-shot-that-launched-a-thousand-books/#comment-30170 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:10:59 +0000 https://travelingboy.com/travel/?p=37526#comment-30170 Well done, I never read this much about his assasination but find new matters to ponder. He was a great and wonderful man of his time working to do what he thought was right. The enslavement of anyone is wrong and He dis something about it.
The road of Freedom has been a rocky one for those freed. Reacism is ugly and to see it up close and personal unbearable.
Thanks for a great thought provoking article to ponder.

]]> By: Jerry https://travelingboy.com/travel/ford-theatre-the-shot-that-launched-a-thousand-books/#comment-30160 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:32:44 +0000 https://travelingboy.com/travel/?p=37526#comment-30160 Good piece of writing, learned a lot. I read somewhere that John Wilkes Booth was more famous for being the younger brother of Edwin Booth, which some considered to have played the greatest Hamlet on the English language stage.

Learned from The History Reader, Booth ‘refused to surrender and was shot inside a tobacco barn. The bullet severed his spinal cord. “Tell mother I die for my country,” the paralyzed Booth muttered to a Union cavalryman.” Not sure if true, but Union soldier who killed him, did on his own with no command from his superiors, and said something about ‘it was God’s command.’

Jerry the Yankee

]]> By: Oliver https://travelingboy.com/travel/ford-theatre-the-shot-that-launched-a-thousand-books/#comment-30159 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:14:05 +0000 https://travelingboy.com/travel/?p=37526#comment-30159 Besides that, Mrs Lincoln… what did you think of the play?

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