That speech won't scour.

Nobody likes a sore loser. The mobs that riot after their team has lost. That sad pathetic man dialing his ex-wife drunk at three in the morning pleading for her to come back. Historically in my opinion John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln was one of the most infamous. The son of Edwin Booth a noted and celebrated Shakespearean actor and a celebrated actor himself, Booth had developed a sympathy towards the south and the Southern Cause. Booth first hatched a scheme to kidnap Lincoln and conspired with several Confederate sympathizers among them John Surratt a Confederate spy who's mother Mary owned a boardinghouse in Washington where whose and his conspirators often met. Booth plan to kidnap Lincoln was later thwarted by bad intelligence. Montreal was a hotbed of Confederate spies at that time including a group that set fire to several hotels in New York City. Confederate guerrillas had also launched a raid on Vermont from there. Booth eventually returned to Washington and fell into a deep despair as Confederate defeat became obvious. Richmond had fallen. Sherman's march to the sea had devastated the Confederacy and Lee had surrendered. On April 11 Lincoln had given a speech at the White House and had mentioned giving the right to vote to black soldiers in the Union army. Booth had been present at the speech and stated 'Thats the last speech he'll never make.' Booth knew the layout of Ford's theater intimately as he had performed there before. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the the back of the head with a single shot pistol thus ending what could have been a good life. The war was over, he had just been reelected and seemed to most of those around him to be in good spirits. The entire history of reconstruction and the civil rights movement might have been different had he had lived. Booth thought that assassinating Lincoln would bring him support but this was misguided. Eventually ending up in a barn at the Garret Farm in Virginia he found himself surrounded by Union troops. Booth refused to give up and eventually Boston Corbett a Union soldier shot him in the neck. Booth later died from his wounds asking to see his hands and remarking 'useless, useless.'