Assassination Trivia

[RJNorton]

While researching a topic in another thread I came across the following quote carried in a newspaper many years after the assassination. It was said by an actor. (The actor was not a cast member in Our American Cousin the night the president was shot.)

What actor said:

"Lincoln was an admirer of the man who assassinated him. I know that, for he said to me one day that there was a young actor over in Ford’s Theater whom he desired to meet, but that the actor had on one pretext or another avoided any invitations to visit the White House. That actor was John Wilkes Booth."