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EPISODE · May 23, 2025 · 16 MIN

Assassin? Egomaniac? Center Stage asks: Who was John Wilkes Booth?

from On The Record · host WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore

The handsome young actor who shot President Lincoln was a proud supremacist from Maryland. Matthew Weiner, famous for Mad Men, has written a play that finds some humor in John Wilkes Booth’s monstrous ego.

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The handsome young actor who shot President Lincoln was a proud supremacist from Maryland. Matthew Weiner, famous for Mad Men, has written a play that finds some humor in John Wilkes Booth’s monstrous ego.

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