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To: William of Barsoom

Edwin Booth is crying in heaven that such dramatic expression was never his.


11 posted on 03/21/2024 10:08:28 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: lastchance
"Edwin Booth is crying in heaven that such dramatic expression was never his."

Good one. By the way, Edwin Booth is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Ma. Visited the cemetery many years ago. Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic) is buried there as well, along with other well-known people.

I started watching the AppleTV+ series titled "Manhunt," which covers the 12 days Hunt for Booth and his accomplices. Unfortunately it's based on a book that has no footnotes or sources, so they play loose with the actual facts. For example, they showed Mary Lincoln accompanying her husband's body on his funeral train, along with her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley. That never happened. She dragged her feet for weeks before finally leaving the White House and settling in a hotel in Chicago, and Mrs. Keckley remained with her all that time. The only reason I decided to watch it is that the actor who plays Booth, Anthony Boyle was just featured in "Masters of the Air," playing Harry Crosby, navigator for the 100th Bomb Group in WWII.

For anyone who is interested in the truth about the assassination and the hunt for Booth, I highly recommend Michael W. Kauffman's "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies." It is a well sourced and documented record of what occurred. I met Kauffman many years ago when I attended several Booth symposiums in Maryland. I am acknowledged in his book as one of the researchers who provided him information I'd found along the way during my own research.

99 posted on 03/21/2024 11:37:06 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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