Assassination Trivia

[Frederick Hatch]

(10-25-2013 12:19 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Karin, Eva, and Dave - I am sorry - all are wrong.

Hint #1: This person quit acting after appearing in "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination.

Hint #2: The person moved to Philadelphia and worked for a clothier named Wanamaker and Brown.

Hint #3: The person unsuccessfully ran for the state legislature in Pennsylvania in 1914.

Hint #4: The person passed away at the age of 86 on March 10, 1931.

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Joseph H. Hazelton (1853-1936) was a program boy at Ford's Theatre in 1865. Mrs. Lincoln pointed him out to the President when they arrived at the threatre on April 14, 1865. Hazelton remembered giving the Lincolns a program for the performance that night. He wrote his recollections in a magazine article: "This Man Saw Lincoln Shot," by Campbell MacCulloch, Good Housekeeping, Vol. 84, no. 2, February, 1927, pp. 20-1, 112, 115-16, 121-2. Hazelton gives no more detail than could be gotton from historical accounts. His presence at the Petersen House is questionable, as his timing is too perfect. His eyewitness account of the shooting has the ring of truth, however. He would be the last theatre employee to survive, as far as we know. Several of the others left no information about their later lives. Fred