Counting on the window and it was a scary individual savoury the troublemaker east newspaperman . He said did you get out of this car i will beat your brains out he said if you and me to get out you have to give me a lot more incentive than that. [laughter] this regard i have for the Virginia Historical society for the wonderful work for what i needed to do and thank you. The book grew from a class that i talked on great crimes for we would take a different crime every week and hands down the lincoln assassination was the favorite the students were the most interested and the characters were great in the characters were substantial. I began to think of a book there is a lot of books on the assassination but not brucine that is a problem because the coconspirator said he alone was the driving force seoul the assassination of books are looking at if you really want to save that vehicle. That was my motivation Going Forward and this was his whole neighborhood born just outside of this place here. The little place named church will just outside the village know this house is no longer standing. It was gone by the late 1800s but they built the log house notice there is a family it is not the booth it was taken 18th 65 after there were is a neighbor who was reading the place. This is the house where ruth was a teenager. It was built in the early 1850s 10 years before a though for the neighborhood family is posing on the porch but the house is owned by the county. In fact, it was still owned by a couple named dorothy and howard. They through the front door open in you never knew we would give. Sometimes they would give you a paintbrush but there were very hospitable and howard said i knew you were interested in booth you want to spend the night in his bedroom . I said i dont think so. [laughter] i dont want him to ask me why a you asking these questions about me . To believe in ghosts and i said i dont intend to change my mind either. [laughter] but he also spent some time in the central town house. We have the inner harbor in there is a residential neighborhood to the east and when he was shown with those theatricals this is booth father. He and his wife came to the United States 1821 so the family was in the country 40 years when the civil war took place for he was an actor in this generation of Andrew Jackson before linkedin his dad was one of the best actors in the United States making a pretty good salary. A really good actor when he was focused but other times he may not show up for a performance or address inappropriate you just never knew of course, he was very challenging because youre not getting consistency out of him the to be charming in the next weeks scare the hell out of here. We have all been on the receiving end he would just go totally quiet like you were not in the room also he had the after i is that could be very intimidating to a child but happily his mother shown here in a painting who was his mother was open and in teaching and a loving and not judgmental that is a counterweight. They would have 10 children and four died before making it out of childhood which when growing into a rage for boreas and two girls. The oldest with site the father but this is his oldest brother but to make a confident but the minister who preach the funeral service. Would you like to say anything . But somebody said his brother was even worse. [laughter] final think we will hear that. But no more famous older brother was a very fine actor but i can always tell how old he is by his hair cuts this is 1861 hair cut it is funny how you can use that but that is a q how he is doing. This is his older sister asia. She was not a public figure like her brothers but a pretty good writer and poet to write a secret memo are of her brother 10 years after the lincoln murder and had to hide it from her husband clark because he had grown hot style to the family and was an unpleasant person to be around. Then before she died she gave it out of the family to reassure he did not find it i publish that separately in this small volume and they can it is the most extensive account so in the middle of the war years he assaultive tim . But he would pull in his fingers then adding personal insults to jefferson davis. He tried to pull the head off his shoulders. His grip was incredibly strong and this is the youngest of the children and a brother named joseph but it is interesting because this is the one everybody was concerned about the never say anything he is getting weird or anything but the trouble was the brother there were always worried about to do something strange maybe to himself or others then he went to australia on a sheep ranch and came back to San Francisco and that is where he was for most of the civil war. Way back before me the owner of the booth house in she lived there for the next seven years during the mid 1930s and she didnt know anything because the issue was very generous and one day during the depression kimmel was a soldier of fortune because he went to do a book on the booth family. I have not decided yet if he was not totally honest with what he intended to do but if they were two elderly get that plane to because she always wanted to do one become a the and notebook begin to use travel around and but she was shocked beyond shock to push she had grown to love the booth family once you know, and love somebody make excuses for them she was making excuses for everybody then john wilkes so porous mrs. Mahoney would idle away with her collection at tudor hall but one day somebody happier for her that helen was a young woman that was two generations younger and she said dole led him discourage you. We can write a book i will tie up so they would work for years than in years on the project but then rover to came along people moved away and she got married so when i came away, everybody knew i know when to hear that that kept looking. One day there she was. I found her. And then many years later living down self on the farm. She had nobody to talk to about booth and they worked for decades to is very gracious and healthful and handed over to read the motherhood that was piles of stuff or going back to the period right at the end of the civil war the mother lode of papers one thing was that she wrote that the time the way he went her account of the escaped to work through Prince George and down below fredericksburg and also a letter the thing in their food in church was this committee and house puente beltline dash almost the have decided she is coauthor. And i make pretty good use of this that i creditor as a coauthor of the book with all the stories said mrs. Mahoney had heard in one time Woodrow Wilson dropped by. The next day is all sorts of famous people that came by because it was the home to use such great actors as well as an assassin. The leader of her book led me to this document. Sova you may know historically they dont have paid clergys everybody signs of a wedding certificate. It is almost like you cyanates to support it and eli m. Rainiers school into emerson but they would go over and intent the wedding. But briefly what type of education but with squared will send a very nice look we have seen that in his search homes. He also attended to this is of what sentence he is looked like from the road and was run by the episcopalian minister. Who is an intelligent man bench one of the idea is is to have classs the floor but to be the page written status of women with his serve province to rest a revolt of hooch was camped out so they had to bring in pitied did not take to read is easily solutions lowes that it was harder for him but i think next to laugh that is an important surgery but he has to have center stage fright but of course, but he played that to race in the richmond to theater. And not into a just before the book came out and this clipping dont bother to read it but it does say that demo what doesnt say . The best stop and he played the board in our american cousins so that was a play that he knew real well. I will have more to say about that in a second. If you recognize john browne he was a net job but well adds a richmond theater the raid at Harpers Ferry took place with a companion illustration so as he rallied the citizens of virginia to defend the commonwealth he went with the militia to charles town but one misunderstanding is he pushed his way and that is a complete misunderstanding as in the state archives it is a paid voucher or the commonwealth pays 64 and 0. 58 for his time as a soldier. So he was a corporal or a surgeon to better use for the date he was paid exactly six years before the assassination. With the flag of the. If that sounds. This is an africanamerican unit but then they come back to bite you. Select this escapes attention and he was a lawyer but as the but you may or may not know once the war began confederates it milk they will destroy the bridges in the effort to cut off from the yankees number. That is from the susquehanna river. But it booth did not go into the Confederate Army. Many friends of his did but stump chose to go into exile into canada son chose to stay during their reunion campaign. Booth reached a crisis point december 61 about what he wanted to do this story is his politics were actively southern the time before the war paper released submitted his allegiance to this city with the confederacy and he had many friends he loved the town and in fact, had his bags packed but his mother sent him down to say i already lost four children she already had a premonition when he was six months old that he would die in early and violent death and richer something would happen to him the son she loved the most to was the most affectionate and most attentive and she protected her from that eccentric data of theres and she had done such a good job they he told her when i get to be a man your happiness will be everything to me. I will never forget for what you have done for me as a child i will be there for you she prayed and pledged and pulled out every track at the end of the day she talked chairman into staying out of the war without was a mistake because of his political feelings and personal instincts were southern may be would be more proper to go into the Confederate Army may be filling a grave that the Brandy Station but that didnt happen and as they filled out the Confederate Army of virginia he gave his flag his personal flag from 1861 and is in the collection of the American Civil War museum and he went into acting. With the number of venues i may say he never acted on a confederate stage but only in areas like new orleans conquered by the war only occupied cities like new orleans or st. Louis or northern cities like boston or chicago or new york. He was a natural actor. Ziad the inner fire into the love of applause. For most of his life he was focused to be a fine actor and very ambitious. The redskins had a great year and a great defensive lineman named a jacoby. He was famous to say to with and the super bowl i would run over my own mother. His teammates says that sounds strange but i know how he feels i would also run over his mother also. [laughter] i am just saying he had focused and determination. I love this for a graph not only is said early but the ancestor of the Famous Family of actors per she is a grandmother when as a direct descendant of drew barry moore the reference to that is even more extensive per cokehead he was not her ted factor and he was a star in a matter of months she had a serious tutelage as a junior actor but he soared. Veteran actresses thought he went too far too fast. He sold tickets but she didnt think much and she tried to rattle him prepare she added terrifying sense of humor. She would pretend to look to him for advice. Now he is only 23 and is reluctant to give advice to the lady of the theater. Here is a stage is set from 63. December 90 in 58 per dress caught on fire as she wondered to close in the richmond the theater. The members saw its but they were too far to help her so the actors onstage help. It began to flame up while it was on her in the newspaper said that booth put the fire out with his own hands and saved her life. During the war years when he does stuff like that. And saves people from accidents. If we could open the said bill would have names of the characters in every actor would have wanted to rehearsals and the apostate would be featured less than the year before the assassination of lincoln. This was the bloodiest guide the absolute villain one of the scariest characters you could see. He liked to play that because he could get a reaction in from the audience. His makeup was so realistic at one point he had to stop to reassure the actress it is just me. Her name was an ant when you say down. But here he is to be haunted by the ghost