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4 days ago · Kennedy’s assassination, the most notorious political murder of the 20th century, remains a source of bafflement, controversy, and speculation.
Jun 17, 2024 · John Wilkes Booth was part of a family of celebrated actors, but he is remembered as the assassin who mortally wounded U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, as part of a broader conspiracy that included an attempt on the life of Secretary of State William H. Seward.
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- John Wilkes Booth was part of one of the most distinguished acting families in the 19th century United States. His father, Junius Brutus Booth, an...
- John Wilkes Booth was an actor. After an unsuccessful Baltimore, Maryland, theatrical debut in 1856, he played minor roles in Philadelphia until 18...
- John Wilkes Booth was a vigorous supporter of the Southern cause. He was outspoken in his advocacy of slavery and his hatred of U.S. Pres. Abraham...
- John Wilkes Booth fled after shooting U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln. During the massive manhunt he was discovered by Federal troops while hiding in th...
Jun 26, 2024 · The assassination of William McKinley took place on September 6, 1901, at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. The 25th president of the United States was attending the Pan-American Exposition when a man stepped out of the crowd and shot him twice in the abdomen.
Jun 13, 2024 · When he enlisted to fight in the Civil War he had to do so under his slave name, Gaines. He served to fight for freedom in his country alongside the Union. When Early died in Lawrenceburg at the age of 90 on March 22, 1934, William Gaines was placed on his grave marker in the Greendale Cemetery.
1 day ago · The assassination has also been featured in several musical compositions, such as Igor Stravinsky's 1964 piece Elegy for J.F.K. and Phil Ochs' 1966 song "Crucifixion", which reportedly brought Robert Kennedy to tears.
Jun 25, 2024 · The State Department introduced eleven global music ambassadors at a time when we are divided at home and abroad. “We can learn from the world,” says Chuck D. Art is an expression of optimism ...
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1 day ago · West Side Story. West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents . Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar ...
