For the only time, the three Booth brothers from the famous acting family, Edwin, Junius Brutus, and John Wilkes, performed on the same stage at a benefit performance of Julius Caesar at the Winter Garden in New York City to raise funds to complete the Shakespeare Monument and its John Quincy Adams Ward sculpted statue in Central Park. The completed monument stands today. (By John Osborne)
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Frederick Hatch, Protecting President Lincoln: The Security Effort, the Thwarted Plots and the Disaster at Ford's Theatre (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011), 74.
"The Shakespeare Tercentenary," Harper's Weekly Magazine, May 7, 1864, p. 301.
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