Fuck No, John Wilkes Booth.

The underlying motive that caused the Southern leadership and men like John Wilkes Booth to risk all in their effort to ‘get’ Lincoln was a common belief that slavery was an essential part of the cultural and economic success of the United States. Booth was a White supremacist. Those who joined with him in his plot to remove Lincoln were also White supremacists whose greatest fear was the emancipation of the Black man. Abraham Lincoln was the architect of those emancipation policies. ”