The Legacy of Julius Caesar's Assassination
The Ancients
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The Assassination of Lincoln - The Ides of March
John wilkesbooth had been in the southern militia during the civil war. His whole family were actors, famed for their shakespearian performances. Members of his family were named after brutus. When he ded to assassinate president lincoln, he went to washington. I guess he was probably disappointed that this wasn't the fifteenth of march. But he got on the stage of a theatre where lincoln was watching a play, and then shot him. And in the diary, he spoke about himself as a brutus who had removed caesar. So instead of an image of caesar belonging to another country and tyrannizing america, this was now the north tyrannizing the south
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