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I'd like to,uh,talk about John Wilkes Booth for a moment if I could,
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Abraham Lincoln's killer
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12 days,that's how long it took to find him.
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In his journal during this period,he wrote
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that the shadow was his friend,the night his domain.
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He acknowledged that whatever neuroses drove the criminal
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to commit the original crime is compounded,magnified by flight,
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by the sounds of dogs at his heels.
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Fear becomes paranoia,
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paranoia ultimately psychosis.
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I bring this up,because,in 140 years,
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the fundamental mind of the escaped man has not changed.