EI, I understand your point but I think that there are better examples. I’m not sure that you could really say that Booth was a liberal (unless you consider all actors Liberals – Ha, Ha!!). I haven’t found any indication that he was a Democrat either. Anyway, being a Virginia Democrat during the Civil war would have put you on the conservative side of the fence (by today’s definition). The Democrats were for states rights and they were anti-abolitionists (not that this is a conservative idea). I also don’t agree that an Anarchist (no government) or a socialist (governmental control of production and distribution of goods, etc…) is necessarily liberal. Also Leon Czolgosz was not an official member of the Anarchist movement (like Emma Goldman, etc…) He was just a loser nobody. Charles Julius Guiteau was a crazy dirt bag who was even a bigger loser than Czolgosz. I can find no evidence that he ever belonged to any political party. He did try to join a free love movement in upstate NY but they just took his money and kicked him out. Oh well...