Well, first of all, he's acting and he's making a lot of money acting. He starts out as an actor, and he's not all that great. People actually are booing him from the stage. And so his brother Edwin, helps mold him into the actor that he becomes he goes from making $8 a week to making $20,000 a year. That's $5,000, less than what Abraham Lincoln was making as President of the United States. So extremely popular, but he was a secessionist, he was in support of the South and the Confederacy. And he hated Lincoln's policies, especially around African Americans. So he devises this kidnapping plot, initially, when the kidnapping plot falls apart disintegrates. A lot of historians say, you know, that's where it could have ended, that John Wilkes Booth would just be known as some guy who didn't like Lincoln's policies will join the Club. There was lots of them at the time. But on that Tuesday, April 11, before Lincoln goes to the theater on that Friday night, Lincoln gives an impromptu speech from the second story window of the White House. And there are two people that there's the public is coming out on the executive lawn to listen and there are two people in particular that are in that audience. One is John Wilkes Booth. And John Wilkes Booth, hears Lincoln talk about reconstruction, and where he sees the country going. And he discusses perhaps that African American men should obtain the right to vote. But he's very clear in it, that he says those that are very intelligent, and those who have fought for the Union army. Now remember, most people in 19th century America are racist. And so there are racist types of statements that Lincoln makes and we have to kind of recognize it for what it is is a sign of its time. John Wilkes Booth is in that audience that night and he hears Lincoln say that, and some historians say that is where it becomes an assassination plot. Other historians say no, it went immediately from kidnapping to assassination, a plot now one of the other persons in on that executive lawn that evening listening to Lincoln is a 23 year old doctor, Army doctor. By the name of Charles Leal. He will be the first doctor at Ford's Theatre in that presidential box trying to save Lincoln's life that night after John Wilkes Booth jumps 12 feet to the stage. So John Wilkes Booth was very adamant that night on the Executive lon once he heard Lincoln talking about his reconstruction policies, that that would be the end of him, that he was going to take action, whatever that action would be. What I find interesting about John Wilkes Booth is that he is an actor. He loves the stage. He loves the attention. He loves the applause. Lincoln did not travel Secret Service was not a detail of the president at the time. In fact, that's Lincoln's last act in office is to create the Secret Service, but to fight counterfeiters, not as a detail security detail. In fact, most times when Lincoln would travel, he would have a Calvary escort of some sort. When he went to Ford's Theater that night, he had his foot men from the carriage and one security detail from the Washington Metropolitan Police who's actually a relative of Mary Todd Lincoln's mother, which is how we got the job. Unfortunately, he was an extraordinary King at the bar. So Lincoln didn't really have the doorman was there from the carriage, but he has no gun. He doesn't have security responsibilities. So because of the lack of security detail that Lincoln had on him at all times, and Lincoln would often walk alone, there was ample opportunity to assassinate Lincoln prior to this. But John Wilkes Booth is an actor and he loves the attention what greater joy than to jump 12 feet from the Presidential box onto center stage to lift the dagger the bloody dagger that he had just ripped through major Henry Reed rathbones arm from elbow to shoulder, raise that dagger with his left hand over his head and scream, the Virginia state motto, sic semper tyrannis. That's always to tyrants. And he stood there for a minute as if he's waiting for applause. And then comes that is amazing to me. Because he must have hated Lincoln. But at the same time, he loved himself so much he was going to do it in dramatic fashion. In fact, Lincoln even thought John Wilkes Booth was a great actor. He had seen him many times before. He had sent a note backstage one time at Ford's Theatre in 1863, when he had seen John Wilkes Booth act and said, I would like to, I'd like to meet you. John Wilkes Booth denied him the request. It said no, I have no desire to meet that man. Of course, he didn't use those exact words. But you get the idea.