From: jkc@upn.don   
      
   I just finished reading an excellent book about the Lincoln   
   assassination.      It's called:  "Anatomy of an Assassination" -- by   
   John Cottrell.   
      
   There seems to be not doubt that John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln.   
   But this book brings out a lot of things I was not familiar with --   
   that indicate (but don't prove)  that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton   
   gave the order for Booth to kill the POTUS.   
      
   Why would one of the head Republicans want to kill this leader just as   
   the Civil War ended ?      Because Lincoln wanted to be restore to the   
   South all the rights of states.     The radical Republicans would make   
   a lot more profit with a more vengeful  president.     So -- they sent   
   for  Booth and had Abe killed.   
      
   But why would Booth -- supposedly a Southern sympathizer -- want to   
   kill a man who was going to be more lenient to the conquered South ?   
   (That is the part that has always bothered me.)      The book suggest   
   Booth only agreed to kill him -- after he heard Lincoln give a  speech   
   saying he would like to give the vote to the black men who served in   
   the Union army.     Maybe.    --   Oh, well !    It is interesting.   
      
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