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Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of President Lincoln’s Assassination

This past Tuesday, April 14th, we commemorated the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. President Lincoln was shot by American actor and Confederate spy John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, 1865 while attending a performance of the play Our … Continue reading

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Booth Family Papers

The Booth Family Papers are contained within the Stanley Swift collection, the cornerstone of the Henneke Archives of Performing Arts, which are named after Ben Graf Henneke. The Booth Family Papers contain forty-two autographed letters, the majority of which are … Continue reading

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