...John Wilkes Booth Vituperation Essay John Wilkes Booth is the worst man to ever assassinate a president. John Wilkes Booth was a jealous and arrogant man. Who allowed his views to become twisted until they eventually led to his demise? John Wilkes Booth was susceptible to fame and was a malicious and jealous man. His murderous life could hardly be blamed on his childhood, but his desire to be an actor came from it, and it was acting that changed his views. Booth’s desire to be an actor started at a young age, because his father was one. He was his father’s favorite son, and was known to be a rowdy and wild child. Booth showed few signs of his future murderous spirit, except for the time he set about killing all the cats in his neighborhood....
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...Before the Civil War John Wilkes Booth was a Maryland boy who came from a family of actors. Booth was an actor himself and was beloved by many for his roles in many different plays. When the war began Booth was a strong Southern sympathizer and had a strong hatred towards abolitionists so much so that he attended John Brown’s execution because he believed him to be a traitor. During the war Booth became a spy in the North and used his job as an actor as a cover to smuggle medical supplies acquired in the North into the South. As a very well-known actor, Booth had more freedom than most to travel around unrestricted. As the battles of the war waged on, Booth’s disgust with President Abraham Lincoln grew more and more each day. Booth believed...
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