Greatest Southron Heroes: John Wilkes Booth

http://www.slmnews.com This video introduces John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Union president Abraham Lincoln in 1865. As the worst tyrant in American history and the man responsible for a war which killed over half a million Americans, snuffed out efforts at self-determination and utterly destroyed half of the continent... Lincoln got what was coming to him on that Spring night in 1865. 'Sic semper tyrannis' were appropriate words indeed. Deo Vindice

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YouTube | June 28, 2008

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