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Junius Brutus Booth (1 May 1796 – 30 November 1852) was an English-American stage actor. He was the father of actor John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Oct 9, 2020 · Junius Brutus Booth (May 1, 1796 – November 30, 1852) was an English actor. He was the father of John Wilkes Booth (actor and the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln), Edwin Booth (the foremost tragedian of the mid-to-late 19th century), and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., an actor and theatre manager. Booth was named after Marcus Junius ...
Oct 27, 2020 · Not until after the Booth family patriarch’s death did the irony emerge that he shared a name with the most famous of Julius Caesar’s assassins, Marcus Junius Brutus. Born in London in 1796,...
Junius Brutus Booth Jr. (December 22, 1821 – September 17, 1883) [1] was an American actor and theatre manager. As a member of the illustrious Booth family of actors, Junius Brutus Booth Jr. was overshadowed by his father Junius Sr. and brothers Edwin and John Wilkes (the assassin of Abraham Lincoln ) and later by his wife Agnes , a ...
Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852) brought his mistress Mary Ann Holmes, who bore him 10 children, to the United States. He also wrote many letters in fits of drunken anger and madness to President Andrew Jackson threatening assassination.
English-born U.S. actor Junius Brutus Booth was known for his captivating performances of Shakespearean roles. Although eccentric and undisciplined in his personal life, he achieved popularity in the United States second only to that of the American actor Edwin Forrest.
Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. was the eldest brother of assassin, John Wilkes Booth. As part of the ongoing speaker series at Tudor Hall, the home of the Maryland...
Jan 25, 2009 · For generations, presidential scholars assumed this threatening letter that President Andrew Jackson got in 1835 was a hoax. While the letter bore the signature of acclaimed actor Junius Brutus...
May 1, 1992 · Junius Brutus Booth: Theatrical Prometheus. Hardcover – May 1, 1992. In this, the first thoroughly researched scholarly biography of Junius Brutus Booth, Stephen M. Archer reveals Booth to have been an actor of considerable range and a man of sensitivity and intellect.
- Stephen M. Archer
It is true; Junius and John Booth both had the desire to assassinate the acting president of their times, but only one of them carried out this deed. As we know, John Wilkes Booth was successful, and on April 15, 1865, he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
