Actor Charles Manley acting at Ford's?

[Tom Bogar]

My favorite quote about the countless false claimants is this by drama critic John Bouve Clapp in 1916: "It is estimated that enough players have been credited with acting at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, to have filled the playhouse itself." I lost track after awhile of how many of these folks I had to discard along the way, who had no valid claim whatsoever.