This is the memory palace.

I'm Nate DeMoeu.

Sparathot for Edwin Booth.

First, let's remember that his brother, John Wilkes, was an actor.

And if he weren't an actor, then he doesn't kill Lincoln.

Because that night that Abe and Mary go to Ford's theater to take in his show.

John Wilkes Booth can just walk around and know and thinks anything of it.

Because the usheres and stage hands and whatever security they had there, all recognized him.

He's John Wilkes Booth the actor.

Of course, he's just hanging around in the hallway.

And he's John Wilkes Booth the famous actor.

From the acting booths.

His father was Junius Brutus Booth.

England's greatest Shakespearean actor.

Which is really saying something.

And he moved to the United States and became America's greatest Shakespearean actor.

Which is saying less, but it's still pretty cool.

The booths were an acting dynasty going way back.

So it's kind of like if Drew Barrymore killed the Abraham Lincoln.

Even correcting for 1865 dollars.

The way that fame worked back then to the way it does now.

Picture a world in which Drew Barrymore kills Abraham Lincoln.

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