i found a statement from jacob thompson that has never been published in the library in fort wayne. thompson said what they were doing their was they were working on the action plan -- an abduction plan with booth to force a peace conference, no longer to rescue prisoners, but to force a peace conference. thompson told a friend in the postwar years, i'm sorry we had anything to do with them because i think maybe the assassination would not have happened if we had not thrown a log on that fire at that point. >> bel air maryland, is only a few miles from pennsylvania and the booth family was all pro-union to my knowledge. why did booth become pro-southern, in your opinion? dr. alford: it is interesting because the family are not traditional plantation people. the do not own slaves, essentially. they never made a living on slave labor. they were urban active people. i'm not sure his father became an american citizen. that is a good question. he just identified with the institutions of maryland. the white middle class and the white upper-class. he just felt that the best country in the w

i found a statement from jacob thompson that has never been published in the library in fort wayne. thompson said what they were doing their was they were working on the action plan -- an abduction plan with booth to force a peace conference, no longer to rescue prisoners, but to force a peace conference. thompson told a friend in the postwar years, i'm sorry we had anything to do with them because i think maybe the assassination would not have happened if we had not thrown a log on that fire at that point. >> bel air maryland, is only a few miles from pennsylvania and the booth family was all pro-union to my knowledge. why did booth become pro-southern, in your opinion? dr. alford: it is interesting because the family are not traditional plantation people. the do not own slaves, essentially. they never made a living on slave labor. they were urban active people. i'm not sure his father became an american citizen. that is a good question. he just identified with the institutions of maryland. the white middle class and the white upper-class. he just felt that the best country in the w

i found a statement from jacob thompson that has never been published in the library in fort wayne. thompson said what they were doing their was they were working on the action plan -- an abduction plan with booth to force a peace conference, no longer to rescue prisoners, but to force a peace conference. thompson told a friend in the postwar years, i'm sorry we had anything to do with them because i think maybe the assassination would not have happened if we had not thrown a log on that fire at that point. >> bel air, maryland, is only a few miles from pennsylvania and the booth family was all pro-union to my knowledge. why did booth become pro-southern, in your opinion? dr. alford: it is interesting because the family are not traditional plantation people. the do not own slaves, essentially. they never made a living on slave labor. they were urban active people. i'm not sure his father became an american citizen. that is a good question. he just identified with the institutions of maryland. the white middle class and the white upper-class. he just felt that the best country in the