Comment from viewer Pattie Williams: After I watched your story on the letter from John Wilkes Booth's father to Andrew Jackson, I Googled "Junius Brutus Booth" and found out he was named for Marcus ...

PRINCE OF PLAYERS: EDWIN BOOTH (401 pp.)—Eleanor Ruggles—Norton ($4.50). Everyone agreed that the Booths were eccentric—sometimes majestically. Take old Junius Brutus Booth (1796-1852), first of his ...

The passage is so stereotyped in all memories as the authorized expression of a troubled conscience, that even the most careful actors are apt to give it as a detached didactic reflection, rather than ...

Over drinks with his fellow actors in the saloon next to the McVicker Theater in Chicago one afternoon in 1862, John Wilkes Booth announced that a "glorious opportunity" for immortality awaited a man ...

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