Background, the context is the theater. This was an act that occurred in a theater, by an actor, with other actors standing by. And i wanted to look at it through the eyes of those people. And when i was working on the president s book and i was working on the lincoln chapters, i kept coming across this iconic playbill for our american cousin. I looked at it and i kept thinking, these are real people most of whose names have been lost. I mean, if you asked people on the street who the people were involved with the lincoln assassination, certainly people know lincoln, they know booth, maybe 1 in 10,000 would know laura keene. But almost no one would know the names john dyott, harry hawk, billy withers. These were major names in the events of that night. So i started looking even closer to get a sense of, who were these people . I began to find in some cases their names were spelled wrong or the names were a misrepresentation. In some cases its really difficult tracking down actors, beca
Back and forth several times before he actually went up to the box upstairs. So i wanted the readers to feel like, what must they have gone through. Imagine for a moment that the president of the United States has been assassinated in your workplace by one of your most admired, respected colleagues. Fearing for your own safety and the fear of being thought complicit. Reelecting in panic that could be construed as hostile to the president. As well as the times you could be seen socializing with the suspect. The more i start theres a saloon on the south side of fords theater. The star saloon. Theres a saloon next door on the north side, the green back saloon. There were a lot of trips to those saloons that day. Near as i can figure booth alone made seven or eight trips over there in the afternoon or evening which gives you some feeling about working up his courage for what he did. From that moment on, your world would never be the same. You would be intear gated, perhaps imprisoned. You
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