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Thread #120208 Message #2843662
Posted By: Greg F.
18-Feb-10 - 06:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
Subject: RE: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
Was [John Wilkes Booth] in favor of slavery or not?
Most defininitely pro-slavery & a Confederate sympathizer.
His response to Lincoln's speech from the second-storey window of the White House on receiving news of Lee's surrender was: "That means nigger citizenship. That is the last speech he will ever make. By God, I'll put him through".