The tragedy that unfolded at Ford's Theater on that fateful night of April 14, 1865 [Good Friday, many observed] was replete with irony: The cause of the South was finished six days earlier - when Lee's surrender the Army of Northern Virginia, the South's most fearsome weapon, had literally passed out of existence, so the thought of taking the President's life had ceased logically to have any practical value whatsoever.
But obviously logic wasn't foremost in the mind of John Wilkes Booth.
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