Another JWB Myth?

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So far as I know, the only chance that Booth and Beall ever knew each other was meeting during the execution of John Brown. I think it is Lloyd Lewis (Myths After Lincoln) that discusses the so-called friendship and finds no merit in it. One source says that ninety-some members of Congress signed a petition to Lincoln to pardon Beall, but that it was Seward who convinced the President to let him be executed - hence Booth deciding that Seward would be assassinated also.