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Edwin Booth as Hamlet
The actor Edwin Booth in costume as Hamlet was a friend of President Abraham Lincoln and the brother of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth.
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The actor Edwin Booth in costume as Hamlet was a friend of President Abraham Lincoln and the brother of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth.