Would you assassinate the president for the good of the country? That’s what John Wilkes Booth did. To find this out, I read John Wilkes Booth’s last diary entry, a biography on John Wilkes Booth, and Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson. There are many factors why John Wilkes Booth committed the assassination. The first reason John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln was because he wanted to protect the country from tyrants. I found this in two of three places. John Wilkes Booth’s last diary entry, and the biography about John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth’s last diary entry states “I struck for my country and that alone.” The biography explains that John Wilkes Booth leaped on to the stage and yelled “Sic Semper Tyrannis (Thus ever