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28 - "Useless! Useless!" - The Flight of John Wilkes Booth
About this episode:
For John Wilkes Booth, time was ticking down to the moment he knew he would act. At a tavern next to Ford’s Theatre, he asked for a bottle of whiskey and water. While steeling his nerve for what he would soon do, there came a voice from the back of the dark and smoky bar: “You’ll never be the actor your father was!”
Booth smiled, nodded, and said quietly, “When I leave the stage, I will be the most famous man in America.”
In less than an hour, he would be the most wanted man in America. For this episode, we look back over time’s shoulder - from about 10:15 in the evening…
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