Saturday, May 19, 2012

Today in the Lincoln Conspiracy: May 19

John Wilkes Booth wowed audiences and critics alike during a month-long Boston engagement in May of 1862.  He appeared in seven plays during the month.  On May 19th, he dominated the stage with his performance as Pescara, the villain of the melodrama The Apostate.

Booth was proclaimed "the handsomest man in America"


It was a role Booth would return to again and again.  His final stage performance -- four weeks before the Lincoln assassination -- was as Pescara in The Apostate at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

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