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2 comments about The Story of Ford's Theater and the Death of Lincoln (Cornerstones of Freedom).

1. During a time of national triumph, an assassin's single bullet plunged the nation into the deepest despair. On a hundred battlefields with names like Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, an Dhickamauga, the North and South soldiers clashed until more than 600,ooo mericans lay buried in the ground. April 11" "With malice toward none, with charity for all..." had a premonition of his own death; he saw himself in a casket in the East Room in a dream on April 1st. He was shot on Good Friday, 1865, after admitting to his bodyguard, "I don't want to go" (to the theatre that night. He'd told Mary on an afternoon carriage ride, "I have never felt so happy in my life."
   
   Ford's Theatre was a family venture, owned by John T. whose brothers James and Harry prepared for the president's visit. A framed portrait of George Washington hung over the red upholstered rocker in which Abraham Lincoln relaxed while he watched "Our American Counsin" take place on stage. Seventeen hundred people attended and observed the late arrival of the Lincolns with their fill-in guests, Reed Rathbone and Clara Harris who came in place of General and Mrs. U. S. Grant. Loud applause for the popular (in the North) president basking in victory interrupted Laura Keen's melodramatic acting.
   
   An hour later, the arrival of disturbed John Wilkers Booth went unnoticed as he drank whiskey in the Star Saloon to bolster his plan to help the "noble Confederate cause and immortalize himself." After Lincoln took his last breath, it was proclaimed, "Now he belongs to the ages." Ten days later, Both was killed at Bowling Green, Virginia.
   
   This is the official version from the Northern perspective. Zachary Kent from New Jersey vilified his hero. Studing the United States presidents was his childhood hobby. When you hurt others' aspirations to feel rewarded for a job well done, your job will be in jeopardy and hacking to ruin someone's enjoyment in life can be reversed and a likewise happening to the culprit. God's wrath is explosive. In Sondheim's 'Assassins" at the Carousel theatre in the Round, Booth if first and last, the main character with some discrepancies, such as suicide (never happened) and at the end his ghost (still unchanged from his beginning character) directs Oswald to shoot and killl JFK from his lowly job in Dallas, telling Lee "be one of us." It was far from the actual experinced Booth, blaming his depression on "bad reviews" and the marijuana smoking made for a bad experience all 'round. Booth was narrator at times, oblivious to his surroundings or othrs. But he was front and foremost (the 4th of nine performances), but nothing was new for him -- old hat and matter-of-fact. Dr. Mudd was there butno listing or recognition. The audience were not aware of the circumstances as Lincoln was never shown; those not knowledgeable believed what they saw. The woman on my left asked me, "He didn't commit suicice?" So much for outlandish, wealthy musical composers who play God with history. It was compared by one man as "Springtime in Germany" minus Hitler. Booth was Brutus only in words.
   
   This book serves its purpose well in keeping the facts neatly in words anyone could understand. The Theatre and the Men involved were intertwined in many ways and that evening was the climax for all. Ford's Theatre was closed for a long time after the death of Lincoln.



2. While the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was certainly a major event in the history of the United States, the description in this book lacks some of the depth of historical context needed to understand it. Granted that it is interesting to know Lincoln's state of mind, the modern student needs to understand all of the forces gripping the country at the time. More ink should have been used to describe the length and cost of the American Civil War in order to explain the depth of bitterness many people felt when it ended.
   I am a fan of the Cornerstones of Liberty series of Weekly Reader books. However, I consider this one to be weak in historical background, as the explanations of the situation are not complete.

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