The Forgotten Story of John Wilkes Booth’s Family
John Wilkes Booth overshadows his family’s legendary acting legacy
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10 min readNov 9, 2020
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“Think no more of him as your brother; he is dead to us now, as he soon must be to all the world, but imagine the boy you loved to be in that better part of his spirit, in another world.”— Edwin Booth to his sister, Asia Booth Clarke
