"the play that Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated. Sothern's role was Lord Dundreary, a caricature of a brainless English nobleman. At first, he was reluctant to accept the role; it was so small and unimportant that he felt it beneath him and feared it might damage his reputation. He mentioned his qualms to his friend, Joseph Jefferson, who had been cast in the leading role of Asa Trenchard in the play. Jefferson supposedly responded with the famous line: ""There are no small parts, only small actors."" On 15 October 1858, ""Our American Cousin"" premiered in New York."
"see a play at Ford's Theatre from President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. The couple, who had been friends with the President and his wife for some time, were invited after Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia, Thomas Eckert and several other people had declined Mrs. Lincoln's invitation to the play. While watching the play ""Our American Cousin"" in the Presidential Box at Ford's Theatre that evening, John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Lincoln in the back of the head. When Rathbone attempted to apprehend Booth after the shooting, Booth slashed Rathbone with a"
"fiancee Clara Harris accepted an invitation to see a play at Ford's Theatre from President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. The couple, who had been friends with the President and his wife for some time, were invited after Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia, Thomas Eckert, and several others had declined Mrs. Lincoln's invitation. During the play, noted stage actor John Wilkes Booth surreptitiously entered the Presidential box and fatally shot Lincoln in the head with a pistol. As Rathbone attempted to apprehend Booth, Booth slashed Rathbone's left arm with a dagger from the"
"seen in the sketches ""Abe Lincoln,"" ""John Wilkes Booth,"" and ""The Civil War on Drugs."" Abraham Lincoln is played by Zach Cregger and John Wilkes Booth is played by Trevor Moore. In ""Abe Lincoln"" and ""John Wilkes Booth"", he is the victim of John Wilkes Booth's assassination attempts, though in each sketch the circumstances are quite different. In ""Abe Lincoln"", Lincoln disrupts a performance of ""Hamlet"", frustrating Booth sitting in the audience, and is consequentially bashed to death. In ""John Wilkes Booth"" the president is victim to constant harassment by Booth, who sneaks into the theater and hits him with"
"the Gettysburg Address and references to the hole in Lincoln’s head from the shooting also dominate the historical allusions made. Supposed quotations from the assassination that are quoted and repeated in the play include: ""The America Play"" tells the story of an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, known as the Founding Father, reenacting the night Lincoln was assassinated. Customers come and pay as little as they want to act like John Wilkes Booth or anybody else the customer chooses to portray, and pretend to assassinate the Lincoln impersonator. The Founding Father was fascinated by Abraham Lincoln, saying Lincoln was his ""favorite"", even"
"it is best remembered as the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was attending in Ford's Theatre when he was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Among ""Our American Cousin""'s cast was British actor Edward Askew Sothern, playing Lord Dundreary, a caricature of a brainless English nobleman. Sothern had already achieved fame on the New York stage in the play ""Camille"" in 1856, and had been reluctant to take on the role because he felt that it was too small and unimportant. He mentioned his qualms to his friend Joseph Jefferson, who had been"
"Abraham Lincoln (play) Abraham Lincoln is a 1918 play by John Drinkwater about the 16th President of the United States. Drinkwater's first great success, it premiered in England in 1918. The 1919 Broadway production starred Frank McGlynn. A rare depiction of events in the life of a U.S. President by a British playwright, ""Abraham Lincoln"" was a great success in its day. The play covers events in Lincoln's Presidency from his election in 1860 to his assassination, but omits most of the events in his private life. ""Abraham Lincoln"" was first produced in October 1918 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre,"
"War, Abraham Lincoln, while watching a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., was assassinated by a nationally popular stage-actor of the period, John Wilkes Booth. Victorian burlesque, a form of bawdy comic theater mocking high art and culture, was imported from England about 1860 and in America became a form of farce in which females in male roles mocked the politics and culture of the day. Criticized for its sexuality and outspokenness, this form of entertainment was hounded off the ""legitimate stage"" and found itself relegated to saloons and barrooms. The female producers, such as Lydia Thompson were replaced"
"Lincoln assassination flags The Lincoln assassination flags were the five flags which decorated the presidential box of Ford's Theatre, and which were present during John Wilkes Booth's assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, were in this box watching a production of ""Our American Cousin"". Booth's spur was allegedly caught by one of the flags when he began his escape from the theatre and broke his leg; this part of the story, however, is disputed. Three of the flags were American flags and the other two were Treasury Guard flags."
"play. Lincoln's bodyguard, John Parker, left Ford's Theater during intermission to drink at the saloon next door. The now unguarded President sat in his state box in the balcony. Seizing the opportunity, Booth crept up from behind and at about 10:13 pm, aimed at the back of Lincoln's head and fired at point-blank range, mortally wounding the President. Major Henry Rathbone momentarily grappled with Booth, but Booth stabbed him and escaped. After being on the run for 12 days, Booth was tracked down and found on a farm in Virginia, some south of Washington. After refusing to surrender to Union"
"John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was the American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. He was a member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and a well-known actor in his own right. He was also a Confederate sympathizer, vehement in his denunciation of Lincoln and strongly opposed to the abolition of slavery in the United States. Booth and a group of co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln but later planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary"
"Robert Pastene and Judith Evelyn, the TV adaptation was notable for featuring actor James Dean in the small but significant role of William Scott, a Union soldier court-martialed and condemned to death for falling asleep on watch. The live production survived on kinescope and is available at the Internet Archive. Abraham Lincoln (play) Abraham Lincoln is a 1918 play by John Drinkwater about the 16th President of the United States. Drinkwater's first great success, it premiered in England in 1918. The 1919 Broadway production starred Frank McGlynn. A rare depiction of events in the life of a U.S. President by"
"the Western hemisphere would be a major foreign policy issue for Lincoln's successor. Shortly after 10:00 p.m. on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated while attending a performance of ""Our American Cousin"" at Ford's Theatre with his wife and two guests. Lincoln was shot in the back of his head by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. The mortally wounded president was immediately examined by a doctor in the audience and then carried across the street to Petersen's Boarding House where he died At 7:22 a.m. the following morning. Booth had also plotted with fellow conspirators,"
"Union prisoners of war. On April 14, 1865, just days after the end of the war, Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth during the play ""Our American Cousin"". The next morning, at 7:22 AM, President Lincoln died in the house across the street, the first American president to be assassinated. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton said, ""Now he belongs to the ages"" (or perhaps ""angels""). The residents and visitors to the city experienced a wide array of reactions, from stunned disbelief to rage. Stanton immediately closed off most major roads and bridges, and the city"
"agreed, noting ""he does look pretty sharp at me, doesn't he?"" Selby died at his home in Covent Garden, London, on 21 March 1863 and buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. Charles Selby Charles Selby (c. 1802 – 1863) was a 19th-century English actor and playwright, and translator of many French plays (often without attribution, not uncommon at the time). Among his works was ""The Marble Heart"" (1854), a translation of Théodore Barrière's ""Les Filles de marbre"". The play is best known today for a 9 November 1863 performance in Washington, D.C., where President Abraham Lincoln watched John Wilkes Booth, playing"
"Charles Sabin Taft Charles Sabin Taft (August 1835 – December 18, 1900) was a bystander physician who was pressed into service during the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On April 14, 1865, Taft was watching ""Our American Cousin"" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., which President Abraham Lincoln was attending. Taft had a good view of those in the presidential box. He observed that First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln often called her husband's attention to aspects of the action onstage, and ""seemed to take great pleasure in witnessing his enjoyment."" After Lincoln was shot, Taft was boosted up from the stage"
"Charles Selby Charles Selby (c. 1802 – 1863) was a 19th-century English actor and playwright, and translator of many French plays (often without attribution, not uncommon at the time). Among his works was ""The Marble Heart"" (1854), a translation of Théodore Barrière's ""Les Filles de marbre"". The play is best known today for a 9 November 1863 performance in Washington, D.C., where President Abraham Lincoln watched John Wilkes Booth, playing the villain Raphael. Booth directed some of his threatening lines directly to Lincoln, causing one of Lincoln's party to remark ""he looks as if he meant that for you."" Lincoln"
"November 9 in Washington, D.C. Booth was one of the first leading men to appear there, playing in Charles Selby's ""The Marble Heart"". In this play, Booth portrayed a Greek sculptor in costume, making marble statues come to life. Lincoln watched the play from his box. At one point during the performance, Booth was said to have shaken his finger in Lincoln's direction as he delivered a line of dialogue. Lincoln's sister-in-law was sitting with him in the same presidential box where he was later slain; she turned to him and said, ""Mr. Lincoln, he looks as if he meant"
"a seat protected from the draft, the replyscripted as, ""Well, you're not the only one that wants to escape the draft""was delivered instead as, ""The draft has already been stopped by order of the President!"" Halfway through Act III, Scene 2, the character of Asa Trenchard, played that night by Harry Hawk, utters this line, considered one of the play's funniest, to Mrs. Mountchessington: During the ensuing laughter, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, who was not a member of the play's cast, fatally shot Lincoln in the back of his head. Familiar with the play, Booth"
"it as a historic house museum since 1933, the rooms furnished as on the night Lincoln died. Ford's Theatre Ford's Theatre is a theatre located in Washington, D.C., which opened in August 1863. It is famous for being the site of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. After being shot, the fatally wounded 56-year old president was carried across the street to the Petersen House, where he died the next morning. The theater was later used as a warehouse and office building, and in 1893 part of it collapsed, causing 22 deaths. It was renovated"
"days before Lincoln's assassination, Leale took a brief break from his exhausting job and took a walk down Pennsylvania Avenue for some fresh air. He noticed a crowd of people heading towards the White House. He discovered Lincoln giving his last public address to the public and was intrigued by the president's facial features. Soon after, Leale learned that Lincoln was going to Ford's Theatre to see the play ""Our American Cousin"". ""After completing his duties...Leale changed to civilian clothes and rushed to the Theater, not to see the play, but to study President Lincoln's face and facial expressions."" He"
"later in his life. Hazelton died in Los Angeles, California. Joseph Hazelton Joseph H. Hazelton (ca. 1853 – October 8, 1936), aka Joseph Hazleton, was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1912 and 1922. As a boy program giver at Ford's Theatre, he witnessed the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. In 1933, Hazelton gave a lecture at May Company Exposition Hall in Los Angeles and talked about watching Booth shoot Lincoln. An article in ""Good Housekeeping"" in its February 1927 edition, titled ""This Man Saw Lincoln Shot,"" was the"
"the two are attacked by a Narn. The commotion brings Sheridan, who was having a dinner date with Delenn, down to stop the fight before security arrives. The Narn is killed when security demands he lower his weapon. Ivanova has recently learned of a large number of Narn being passed through the station, and from their records, find their papers have all been signed by a Centauri named ""Abrahamo Lincolni"". Recognizing this as a very un-Centauri play on the name Abraham Lincoln, Ivanova gets Vir to admit that he is Abrahamo. He needed a name to use to arrange for"
"Abe Lincoln in Illinois (play) Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a play written by the American playwright Robert E. Sherwood in 1938. The play, in three acts, covers the life of President Abraham Lincoln from his childhood through his final speech in Illinois before he left for Washington. The play also covers his romance with Mary Todd and his debates with Stephen A. Douglas, and uses Lincoln's own words in some scenes. Sherwood received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1939 for his work. The play premiered on Broadway on October 15, 1938, at the Plymouth Theatre and closed in"
"Ford's Theatre Ford's Theatre is a theatre located in Washington, D.C., which opened in August 1863. It is famous for being the site of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. After being shot, the fatally wounded 56-year old president was carried across the street to the Petersen House, where he died the next morning. The theater was later used as a warehouse and office building, and in 1893 part of it collapsed, causing 22 deaths. It was renovated and re-opened as a theater in 1968. During the 2000s, it was renovated again, opening on February"
"in theaters, and a new theater was constructed to her specifications. Named the Laura Keene's Theatre, it opened on 18 November 1856. In November 1857 she put on ""The Sea of Ice"" to financial success. In 1858, ""Our American Cousin"" debuted in Laura Keene's Theater. On the night of 14 April 1865, Keene's company, which primarily included John Dyott and Harry Hawk, were performing ""Our American Cousin"" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.. In attendance that night were President Abraham Lincoln and his wife First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Actor John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Lincoln while Lincoln watched"
"Killing Lincoln (film) Killing Lincoln is an American television film inspired by the 2011 book of the same name by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. This two-hour political docudrama contains events surrounding the presidency and assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. It was originally broadcast on National Geographic Channel on February 17, 2013. Narrated and hosted by American actor Tom Hanks, the film stars Billy Campbell as President Lincoln and Jesse Johnson as John Wilkes Booth. It was written and executive produced by Erik Jendresen (""Band of Brothers""), directed by Adrian Moat (""Gettysburg""), produced by Chris Cowen, Mark Herzog, Ridley"
"for a production of ""Hamlet"", and when a pregnant Mary falls ill, Ned begins drinking heavily and missing performances. Mary's death turns her husband morose. Then comes the terrible news one night that John Wilkes Booth has assassinated President Abraham Lincoln by gunshot at Ford's theater. Weeks after the assassination, and his brother's subsequent death on a farm in Virginia, Ned has decided to return to the stage in ""Hamlet"". On opening night the theater is packed by a mob incensed by the murder of the president and blaming not only Booth but all actors and theaters in general. One"
"The America Play The America Play is a two-act play that was written by Suzan-Lori Parks in 1993. The play follows an African-American gravedigger who loves and resembles Abraham Lincoln, so much so that he also works as a Lincoln impersonator. For this reason he is referred to throughout the play as the ""Foundling Father."" As an impersonator he charges his customers a penny to take part in a reenactment of Lincoln's assassination. ""The America Play"" ran at Yale Repertory Theatre in January 1994, directed by Liz Diamond, with Reggie Montgomery as The Foundling Father. ""The America Play"" was produced"
"where he exchanges a few words with Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Six days later, Grant receives General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. On April 14, Lincoln is meeting members of his cabinet to discuss future measures to enfranchise blacks, when he is reminded that First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln is waiting to take them to their evening at Ford's Theatre. That night, while Lincoln's son Tad is watching ""Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp"" at Grover's Theatre, the manager suddenly stops the play to announce that the President has been shot. The next morning Lincoln dies; Secretary of"
"assassination on the general plot structure of Shakespeare's ""Macbeth,"" with Kennedy becoming murdered king ""Ken O'Dunc"" and Lyndon Johnson the treacherous title character. The mockery of the play's name is derived from Johnson's propensity to refer to his wife Claudia as ""Lady Bird"" and his elder daughter as ""Lynda Bird."" Garson insisted that her play was a satire and not intended to suggest seriously that Johnson had had a hand in the assassination. Tonino Valerii's 1969 Spaghetti Western film ""The Price of Power"", starring Giuliano Gemma and Van Johnson, was the first filmed drama to present a critical perspective on"
"in just a few hours later. This revelation, that Parkhurst heard from an unnamed cast member of ""Our American Cousin,"" has never been verified. George A. Parkhurst George A. Parkhurst (March 18, 1841 – July 2, 1890) was an American stage actor who was one of the last surviving members of the company of actors present on the night of April 14, 1865, when John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln during their performance of ""Our American Cousin"". Late in his life Parkhurst created the role of Hobbs in the 1888 American debut of ""Little Lord Fauntleroy"". When Booth shot"
"she was singing ""Sherman Has Marched To The Sea"", C.D. Hess, manager of Grover's Theatre, learned of the shooting of Lincoln. A week earlier, Germon was present when John Wilkes Booth came into the office of Hess and inquired as to when Lincoln would attend a performance of ""Aladdin"". The President had been invited and had promised to attend. A photo of Germon was found on Booth when he was shot dead at Richard H. Garrett's farm in 1865. The President's son, Tad Lincoln attended in his place. Germon died at the Actors' Fund Home in Staten Island, New York"