My vote for most outrageous TV episode

[Eva Elisabeth]

May be this is well-known stuff to you, but there's an image of Jack Lemmon as JWB on:

http://ikindalikejacklemmon.tumblr.com/p...was-shot-a

The cutline says:
Jack on the set of The Day Lincoln Was Shot, a television special from 1956. This photo was taken just after Jack, playing John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln’s assassinator), sprained his ankle whilst rehearsing a jump from the balcony behind him. Almost deja vu as Booth in real life had actually broke his ankle doing the same thing.


I found it due to the following article by John Dean:

…For example, still unpublished, but available in archival depositories, is the truly sympathetic, masterful, and Hamlet-like portrayal of that otherwise totally odious figure John Booth by U.S. comedy actor Jack Lemmon. This was in the 1956, live, TV production The Day Lincoln Was Shot.9 It is an excellent example of a popular presentation where villain matches hero, not unlike Shakespeare’s Gloucester and Lear or Iago and Othello….

http://www.asjournal.org/archive/53/172.html