Board Thread:Voting/@comment-26530123-20150625144455/@comment-26072045-20150625154709

John Wilkes Booth had issues strongly brought on by his family life and childhood. His father loved his brother more, his brother tried to make up with him only to suggest they do Julius Caesar and then take John's favorite role as Brutus. Bitter, he had already joined the Confederates. John then went to see My American Cousin, after having heared that Lincoln would be there and figuring that instead of kidnapping Lincoln as his fellow Confederates had planned, that he could assassinate him. Which is likely why he had an inneficiant gun to commit the murder, since he hadn't been planning it. So he shot Lincoln, jumped off of the balcony and said, "Sic semper tyrannis," Brutus' famous line.

You're not the only one who knows about Lincoln's assassination. You're overthinking things.