Lincoln is still considered the most respected and revered of all U.S. Presidents ever elected to that esteemed office. I have always held a deep and profound sense of awe of the man and all that he accomplished in his years in office. With the presidential reelection last week, the parallels of the pervasive ideologies that divide our nation now and then, tells me that nothing has changed in the years since the Civil War. I found a video today that shows what drove John Wilkes Booth to murder President Lincoln. This video shows the bitterness and the deep hatred that drove the South to separate from the Union that still permeates throughout the country today and deeply divides us all. Not just in a sense of they were wronged by the North, but also how they view life in general, and in their arrogant thinking, that everyone needs to have the same views and rules as they set forth. Will this bring our country down yet again or can we learn from the past?
This HBO documentary is 1 hour and 21 minutes, this film is riveting, moving and very accurate.
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