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WI Booth were captured alive.
How much impact would his trial have made.
My hope is that he would significantly discredit both racism and the 'lost cause' idea in the South.
However is there any risk that any significant number of people would see him as a martyr after his hanging.
(In an ideal asb world he would serve life imprisonment doing hard labor in chaine, probably being taken to scrub to latrines in schools for former slaves but in 1865 he would surely have been hanged)