If Booth Had Missed— Playwright Arthur Goodman has chosen to imagine that a Negro porter knocked up John Wilkes Booth's arm just as he entered the Ford's Theatre box to shoot Abraham Lincoln.— Thereafter Honest Abe is beset by venomous political intrigue, chief movers in which are club-footed Thaddeus Stevens, treacherous Secretary of War Stanton and complacently egotistical Ulysses Simpson Grant.
The playwright has drawn considerably on what actually happened to Vice President Andrew Johnson for his subsequent material. Lincoln is villainously impeached,...
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