Today in the Lincoln Conspiracy: May 20
The Boston Museum tirelessly promoted the appearances by John Wilkes Booth on its theater stage. The young actor would perform seven different plays in Boston during May 1862. Handbills proclaimed that his performances excited "extraordinary furore".
On May 20, 1862, Booth appeared in "the ever popular and pathetic play" The Stranger, Or Misanthrope and Repentance. He played the title role.
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