3: John Wilkes Booth -- Part 1: Setting the Stage

Send a text message to the show!In this two-part historical odyssey, Allison and her guest Jayson Blair of the Silver Linings Handbook podcast weave through the transformative year of 1865, where the final throes of the Civil War and the ratification of the 13th Amendment are only a couple of the events that factored into John Wilkes Booth's fateful decision to murder the President of the United States.But who was Booth, exactly? And how deep were his ties to the Confederacy? And what modern actor would you compare Booth to? We were thinking Nicolas Cage or Charlie Sheen. All that and more in Part 1. The conclusion follows next week. Join the Vintage Village Patreon, find social links, merch, etc:https://linktr.ee/warpedcortexmediaThe Silver Linings Handbook:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silver-linings-handbook/id1665733166Additional Music Credit:"Southern Gothic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/RESOURCE LINKS:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Boothhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Boothhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincolnhttps://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/articles-and-essays/assassination-of-president-abraham-lincoln/timeline/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lincolns-missing-bodyguard-12932069/https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/gun-shot-lincoln Support the showCredits:Main Theme Music -- Ken DicksonMain Graphics -- Nathaniel Dickson