'Booth' looks at the family life of President Lincoln's notorious assassin
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John Wilkesbooth - The Assassin
John wilkesbooth was raised in a large family of abolitionists, vegetarian parents and siblines. He doesn't fit the profile of an assassin as you might imagine them to be. His father is famous not only for his acting, but also for s of public insanity. And i think that this is a sign, an factor in the way the family operated, ta that they were completely deformed by the deaths of four of their children,. That the parents never recovered.
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