Today is the birthday of Junius Brutus Booth, Sr. (1796-1852), founder of an acting dynasty. Himself named after the assassin of Julius Caesar, he was also the father of the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln, a fact that will always darken what ought otherwise to be a distinguished American name. A Londoner by birth, Booth […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:27AM on May 1, 2015