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into a dearly beloved martyr,
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it also serves to pervert the truth about his killer.
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John Wilkes Booth,
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a passionate and well-admired man,
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on the path to become one of the greatest actors of his time,
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is reduced by history to a two-dimensional scoundrel
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and dismissed as a madman.
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Harder. Faster! Come on!
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- Good God! - It's all right, old man.
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Come on hard, for God's sake, and save the fight.
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Now...
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let one spirit of the first-born Cain