Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 19 hours ago
April 14th 1865, on the balcony of the Ford Theatre in Washington DC, John Wilkes Booth has just assassinated president Abraham Lincoln. This shocking incident would ring through history and make the Booths the most infamous family in the country. The John Adams Institute is pleased to host author and Man Booker finalist Karen Joy Fowler to discuss her American epic, Booth.
But Booth is much more than the story of that fabled night. It is a sweeping American saga that charts the rising fame of the Booth family from humble beginnings to fame as the nation’s best-known family of actors, broadening this iconic American story from the person of the assassin to his family and his era.
This video was recorded on 15 Sept, 2022 at the OBA, Amsterdam
April 14th 1865, on the balcony of the Ford Theatre in Washington DC, John Wilkes Booth has just assassinated president Abraham Lincoln. This shocking incident would ring through history and make the Booths the most infamous family in the country. The John Adams Institute is pleased to host author and Man Booker finalist Karen Joy Fowler to discuss her American epic, Booth.
But Booth is much more than the story of that fabled night. It is a sweeping American saga that charts the rising fame of the Booth family from humble beginnings to fame as the nation’s best-known family of actors, broadening this iconic American story from the person of the assassin to his family and his era.
This video was recorded on 15 Sept, 2022 at the OBA, Amsterdam
