“Lincoln ( he prefers to go by just his last name. No one calls him “Abe“, which he loathes. Few call him “Mr. President“. His wife actually calls him “Mr. Lincoln“, and his two personal secretaries playfully refer to him as “the Tycoon“) paces the upper deck of the steamboat River Queen, his face lit now and again by distant artillery.“ - Killing Lincoln - Page 9

John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10th, 1838 in a small farmhouse in Maryland, to a Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress Mary Ann Holmes, who moved to the United States from England in 1821. John was the younger brother of Edwin Booth, also a famous actor (some consider him the Greatest American Actor of All Time), Junius B. Booth Jr, an American actor and theatre manager, and Asia Frigga Booth a 19th-century American Writer.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.“ - Killing Lincoln - Page 3