Paul Angle?

Our mystery person was an actor and director.
You may recognize him as Abraham Lincoln from this movie clip, Littlest Rebel, made in 1935, with Shirley Temple and Bill Bojangles Robinson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbrDWFMaD_8

Frank McGlynn, Sr. I didn't know he wrote a book. Gene, looking forward to your review
See my post 13 - Lincoln Onscreen about silent film actors who played Lincoln

"IMDb.com is a great site to check out these Silent Movies. Although many of these are lost to history there is still a lot known about them including photos, plot summaries, cast and crew, writers and directors and more.
Here's a list of 74 compiled 4 yrs. ago featuring Lincoln in any role. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls023521274/
There's another list created last year with 475 Silent Civil War Movies.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls084633179/ "

Congratulations Anita.

Here's the link to Frank's book, "Sidelights On Lincoln" I've just started reading it.
https://archive.org/details/sidelightson...l/mode/2up

Here's a little more info about Frank McGlynn - https://immortalephemera.com/61349/frank...m-lincoln/

Gene, I wonder how his grandchildren turned out.

No googling please.

Who was the man who wrote these words to Lucy Hale in 1869?

"I came back from the station [the day you left] wondering if there were anyone else in the world just like you; one of equal charm, equal power of gaining hearts, and equal disdain of the hearts you gain. The last glance of those mysterious blue-gray eyes fell upon a dozen or so of us and everybody but me thought the last glance was for him.

I have known you too long. Since you were a school-girl – yet even in those early days you were as puzzling in your apparent frankness and real reserve as you are today… You know how I love and admire you. I do not understand you, nor hope to, nor even wish to. You would lose to me something of your indefinable fascination if I knew exactly what you meant…"

Booth would be too easy, but I think it could be Robert Todd Lincoln.

Best
Rob

That's what I thought, too, when I first read it. It was not Robert Lincoln.

But it was someone who has been mentioned on this forum

John Hay?

Yes, Mike. Indeed it was John Hay. The lady sure had lots of admirers.

Roger, where is the source for that quote?

https://www.americanheritage.com/they-all-loved-lucy

https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2010/11...-hale.html

Gene, neither article has a footnote, so that is all I have as of now.

(06-11-2023 08:23 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2010/11...-hale.html

A paragraph from the linked material:

By early 1865, [John Wilkes] Booth and Lucy were often seen together in public and became secretly engaged. On March 4, 1865, Booth attended President Lincoln’s second inauguration with a ticket of admission given to him by Lucy, who got it through her father [Senator John Parker Hale]. Booth remarked afterwards, “What an excellent chance I had, if I wished, to kill the President on Inauguration day!”

David, there is some evidence that Booth actually made a move at President Lincoln that day.

https://www.loc.gov/item/pin2205/

Historians are divided on whether or not this happened as French described.

(06-12-2023 07:38 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  David, there is some evidence that Booth actually made a move at President Lincoln that day.

https://www.loc.gov/item/pin2205/

Historians are divided on whether or not this happened as French described.

Lincoln told Noah Brooks: "There are a thousand ways of getting at a man if it is desirable that he should be killed." Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume Two, page 808.

I think that John Wilkes Booth planned on living a long life after his assassination of President Lincoln. A difficult escape after the act would not be contemplated.